Factories in the Field
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Factories in the Field

The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

  1. 363 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Factories in the Field

The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

About this book

This book was the first broad exposĂ© of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780520224131
eBook ISBN
9780520925182
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. FACTORIES IN THE FIELD
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Foreword
  7. I Introduction
  8. II Land Monopolization
  9. III Empires and Utopias
  10. IV The Pattern Is Cut
  11. V The Chinese
  12. VI The Factories Appear
  13. VII "Our Oriental Agriculture"
  14. VIII Social Consequences
  15. IX The Wheatland Riot
  16. X The War Speed-Up
  17. XI The Postwar Decade (1920–1930)
  18. XII The Land Settlements: Delhi and Durham
  19. XIII The Great Strikes
  20. XIV The Rise of Farm Fascism
  21. XV The Drive for Unionization
  22. XVI The Trend toward Stabilization
  23. XVII The End of a Cycle
  24. Bibliography
  25. Bibliographical Essay
  26. Index