Factories in the Field
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agricultural industry
agriculture
armenians
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california
california agriculture
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chicano studies
chicanx
chinese labor
class
conservation
corporate agriculture
dust bowl
economics
environment
environmentalism
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factory farming
field
filipino
food and agriculture
great depression
hispanic
history
industrial countryside
japanese labor
labor
labor unions
latino
latinx
mexican labor
migrant
migrant workers
migratory labor
nonfiction
socialism
strikes
unions
workers rights
Product details
- ISBN 9780520224131
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book was the first broad expose 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
Carey McWilliams's books include California: The Great Exception (California, 1998), Ill Fares the Land: Migrants & Migratory Labor in the U.S. (1942), Ambrose Bierce: A Biography (1929), Brothers under Skin (1943) and Southern California:An Island on the Land (1946). Douglas C. Sackman teaches history at Oberlin College.
