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Factories in the Field & Southern California Country by Carey McWilliams 1939 & 1946 1st Editions
Factories in the Field was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. The book dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry―Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians―the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
Southern California Country: An Island on the Land is a seminal 1946 non-fiction book by writer and journalist Carey McWilliams. Widely regarded as the best book ever written about the region's history, it documents the boom-and-bust cycles, cultural quirks, and unique personalities of 1920s to 1940s Southern California.
Vintage Hardcovers / Little Brown & Duell, Sloan and Pearce / 1939 & 1946 / First Edition, First Printings / Very Good Condition (No Dustjackets) / Factories comes with relevant 1950s newspaper clippings as pictured
