Factories in the Field : The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California / Carey McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Carey, author.

Contributor:

Welch, Marie de L. (Marie de Laveaga), 1905-1974, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant agricultural laborers--California.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book was the first broad exposé 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

Contents:

Frontmatter

The nomad harvesters / Welch, Marie De L.

Contents

Foreword

I. Introduction

II. Land Monopolization

III. Empires and Utopias

IV. The Pattern Is Cut

V. The Chinese

VI. The Factories Appear

VII. "Our Oriental Agriculture"

VIII. Social Consequences

IX. The Wheatland Riot

X. The War Speed-Up

XI. The Postwar Decade (1920-J930)

XII. The Land Settlements: Delhi and Durham

XIII. The Great Strikes

XIV. The Rise of Farm Fascism

XV. The Drive for Unionization

XVI. The Trend toward Stabilization

XVII. The End of a Cycle

Bibliography

Bibliographical Essay

Index

Notes:

Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1939. With new foreword and index added.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780520925182

0520925181

OCLC:

881510062