Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. 334 pp. Bibliography. Tan cloth with brown lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Moisture staining on ffep; wear to dust jacket extremities, more so to flap folds; still a very good copy of "...the single finest nonfiction on California–ever..." - Kevin Starr, Embattled Dreams. Item #22865
One of the seminal works of the 1930s Depression era. McWilliams exposed the plight of farmers and farmworkers in California who were the unknowing victims of agricultural barons who controlled most of the land in California. The book was published shortly after John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which focused attention on migrants and their farm bosses. McWilliams was a prolific writer who later became editor of The Nation magazine for more than 20 years. (Zamorano Select 73).
Price: $200.00