Bitter Harvest, a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941

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University of California Press, Jan 1, 1982 - Business & Economics - 348 pages
 

Contents

Preface
11
In Search of a Peasantry
40
The Progressive Era
71
Two views of living conditions on the Durst ranch 20
92
Communists on the Farm
105
Parent and child at work in industrialized agriculture
107
1933
141
Strikers camp at Corcoran during 1933 cotton strike
188
Armed farmers hiding before their attack on strikers
197
Pat Chambers addressing strikers at Visalia
207
Passage to No Mans Land
258
Migrant camp in San Joaquin Valley during 1935 season
263
Dust Bowl migrants at Farm Security Administration
269
Notes
287
Index
343
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