The California Farm Workers, 1930-1942
Author | : Donald Friend Fearis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald Friend Fearis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dana Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carey McWilliams |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2000-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520925181 |
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
Author | : Anne Loftis |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2014-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874174406 |
In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Loftis examines the artists who put a human face on the farmworkers’ plight in California during the Great Depression, focusing on writer John Steinbeck, photographer Dorothea Lange, sociologist and author Paul Taylor, and journalist Carey McWilliams. Loftis probes the interplay between journalism and art in the 1930s, when both academics and artists felt an urgent need to be relevant in the face of enormous misery. The power of their work grew out of their personal involvement in both the labor struggles and the hardships endured by workers and their families. Steinbeck, Lange, and the other artists and intellectuals in their circles created the public images of their times. Works such as The Grapes of Wrath or Lange’s Migrant Mother actually helped mold public opinion and form government policies. Even today these works remain icons in our shared perception of that era. Loftis helps us understand why this art still seems the truest representation of those desperate times, three-quarters of a century later.
Author | : Varden Fuller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1942* |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gabriel Thompson |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-05-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786632217 |
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children working in California’s fields—one third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard, despite the persistence of wage theft, dangerous working conditions, and uncertain futures. This book of oral histories makes the reality of farm work visible in accounts of hardship, bravery, solidarity, and creativity in California’s fields, as real people struggle to win new opportunities for future generations. Among the narrators: Maricruz, a single mother fired from a packing plant after filing a sexual assault complaint against her supervisor. Roberto, a vineyard laborer in the scorching Coachella Valley who became an advocate for more humane working conditions after his teenage son almost died of heatstroke. Oscar, an elementary school teacher in Salinas who wants to free his students from a life in the fields, the fate that once awaited him as a child.
Author | : Cletus E. Daniel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520047228 |
Author | : Rick Nahmias |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2008-03 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0826344070 |
Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.
Author | : Richard Steven Street |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804738804 |
Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.
Author | : Linda C. Majka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
ISBN | : |
Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.