"A masterpiece. . . . Two months after the publication of "The
Grapes of" "Wrath," Little, Brown issued the second controversial
California documentary of 1939, "Factories in the Field." . . . If
John Steinbeck was a novelist seeking documentation, Carey
McWilliams was a documentary journalist seeking the moral and
imaginative intensity of art."--Kevin Starr, author of "Endangered
Dreams: The Great Depression in California"
""Factories in the Field is a true classic of the "other
California" that one rarely hears about. McWilliams chronicles the
modern saga of industrial capitalism's transformation of would-be
yeoman farmers into a low-paid, multi-racial army of farmworkers
toiling on huge factory farms. From the start, McWilliams called
for the abolition of the artificial distinction between factory and
farm as the necessary first step in guaranteeing farmworkers the
right to collective bargaining. His work is still relevant to the
ongoing migrations of peoples around the world in search of a
better life."--Neil Foley, author of "The White Scourge
"Indispensable to the study of California history."--Jules
Tygiel, author of "The Great Los Angeles Swindle"
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