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Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Douglas C. Sackman

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 by Douglas C. Sackman
Index

Factories in the Field

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    A Paperback / softback by Carey McWilliams, Douglas Cazaux Sackman

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/04/2000
      ISBN13: 9780520224131, 978-0520224131
      ISBN10: 0520224132

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword by Douglas C. Sackman

      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 by Douglas C. Sackman
      Index

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