Factories in the Field : The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Carey, author

Publication/Creation:

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

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

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

Related/Included Titles:

Frontmatter --
The nomad harvesters /
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

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Additional Author/Creators:

Welch, Marie De L., contributor

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Migrant agricultural laborers--California

Description/Summary

Table of 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

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

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

General Note:

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

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937013068802486

ISBN:

0-520-92518-1

OCLC Number:

881510062

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.1525/9780520925182