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Book Synopsis
A vivid, firsthand account of the migrations, immigrant camps, and labor organizing of displaced Midwestern farmers during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, illustrated with striking photographs.

Table of Contents
  • "Migrant Farmer," by Dorothy Babb
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Babb Sisters
  • 1. The Dirty Plate Trail
  • 2. Field Notes
    • Oklahoma Panhandle, 1934
    • "Triple A, Dusted Out"
    • Note on the government's AAA program to reduce hog production and corn acreage
    • The Dispossessed
      • Labor Conditions
      • Farmer-Industrialist
    • Labor Protest
      • Organization of labor
    • Government Camps
      • Fascist characteristics of the campaign against the migratory workers in California
      • Visalia 2/24/38
      • Labor Contractor
      • Kinds of camps in California
      • Birthrate
      • In answer to the frequent threat...
      • In the fields, 1938
    • Large Landowners
      • Rag Town
    • Refugee Needs
      • A day in the camps
      • San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938
      • Thirty-seven varieties of religon...
    • Striking Workers, Angry Growers
      • March, 1938
      • October 29, 1938
      • Two stories of labor spies
    • Notes for a Novel
  • 3. Reportage
    • Migratory Farm Workers in California (1938)
    • There Ain't No Food (1938)
    • Farmers without Farms (New Masses, 21 June 1938)
    • We Sure Struck It Tuff: The Storm
    • Dealing in Major Catastrophes (New Masses, 23 May 1939)
    • Letter to Dorothy Babb (May 1938)
  • 4. Dust Bowl Tales
    • The Dark Earth (The Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1934)
    • Morning in Imperial Valley (Kansas Magazine, 1941)
    • Whose Names Are Unknown
  • 5. The Dust Bowl as Site of Memory
  • 6. Epilogue: Letters from the Fields
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

On the Dirty Plate Trail

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    A Paperback / softback by Sanora Babb, Dorothy Babb, Douglas Wixson

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2007
      ISBN13: 9780292721449, 978-0292721449
      ISBN10: 0292721447

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A vivid, firsthand account of the migrations, immigrant camps, and labor organizing of displaced Midwestern farmers during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, illustrated with striking photographs.

      Table of Contents
      • "Migrant Farmer," by Dorothy Babb
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: The Babb Sisters
      • 1. The Dirty Plate Trail
      • 2. Field Notes
        • Oklahoma Panhandle, 1934
        • "Triple A, Dusted Out"
        • Note on the government's AAA program to reduce hog production and corn acreage
        • The Dispossessed
          • Labor Conditions
          • Farmer-Industrialist
        • Labor Protest
          • Organization of labor
        • Government Camps
          • Fascist characteristics of the campaign against the migratory workers in California
          • Visalia 2/24/38
          • Labor Contractor
          • Kinds of camps in California
          • Birthrate
          • In answer to the frequent threat...
          • In the fields, 1938
        • Large Landowners
          • Rag Town
        • Refugee Needs
          • A day in the camps
          • San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938
          • Thirty-seven varieties of religon...
        • Striking Workers, Angry Growers
          • March, 1938
          • October 29, 1938
          • Two stories of labor spies
        • Notes for a Novel
      • 3. Reportage
        • Migratory Farm Workers in California (1938)
        • There Ain't No Food (1938)
        • Farmers without Farms (New Masses, 21 June 1938)
        • We Sure Struck It Tuff: The Storm
        • Dealing in Major Catastrophes (New Masses, 23 May 1939)
        • Letter to Dorothy Babb (May 1938)
      • 4. Dust Bowl Tales
        • The Dark Earth (The Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1934)
        • Morning in Imperial Valley (Kansas Magazine, 1941)
        • Whose Names Are Unknown
      • 5. The Dust Bowl as Site of Memory
      • 6. Epilogue: Letters from the Fields
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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