Factories in the field : the story of migratory farm labor in California /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers > California.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Californie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > General.
Migrant agricultural laborers
California
agricultural industry.
agriculture.
armenians.
california agriculture.
california.
chicano studies.
chicanx.
chinese labor.
class.
conservation.
corporate agriculture.
dust bowl.
economics.
environment.
environmentalism.
factory farming.
field.
filipino.
food and agriculture.
great depression.
hispanic.
history.
industrial countryside.
japanese labor.
labor unions.
labor.
latino.
latinx.
mexican labor.
migrant workers.
migrant.
migratory labor.
nonfiction.
socialism.
strikes.
unions.
workers rights.
Online Access:Texto completo
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

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