Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California By Carey McWilliams

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Published the same year as The Grapes of Wrath, Factories in the Field provided an examination of the lives of migrant farm workers and an indictment of the politics and consequences of agribusiness.

This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. A pioneering and powerful work of socially engaged history, Factories in the Field shows how the relationship of America’s many peoples to the land shapes and is shaped by the dynamics of class, race, and citizenship. A new forward by Douglas C. Sackman reflects on the value of the book and its influence in the years since its publication in 1939.

University of California Press, Carey McWilliams, 1999, Softcover, 345 p.p.

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