Factories in the Field
The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry, History, Americas, United States
| Author: | Carey McWilliams | ISBN: | 9780520925182 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press | Publication: | April 15, 2000 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carey McWilliams |
| ISBN: | 9780520925182 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication: | April 15, 2000 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Language: | English |
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
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
