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Monographs prepared for A Documentary history of migratory farm labor, 1938.
BANC MSS 72/187 cLOCAL
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Title:

Monographs prepared for A Documentary history of migratory farm labor, 1938
Documentary history of migratory farm labor

Creator/Contributor:

Federal Writers' Project (Oakland, Calif.), creator

Creator/Contributor:

Barry, Raymond P.

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

With these: Wage chart by crops: State of California 1865-1938.

Date:

1938 (issued)

Contents:

1. Child labor in California agriculture.--2. Labor in California: peach crop.--3. The contract labor system in California agriculture.--4. Labor in California apple orchards.--5. The California cotton pickers strike-1933.--6. Labor in California cotton fields.-- 7. Labor in the market pea crop.--8. Indians in Cali- fornia agriculture.--9. Oriental and Mexican labor unions and strikes in California agriculture.-- 10. Negroes in California agriculture.--11. Influence of employment agencies on migratory farm labor.-- 12. The migratory agricultural worker and the American Federation of Labor.--13. The California workmen's compensation act and its application to migrants.--14. Labor in California; sugar bee crop.-- 15. The Social Security Act and migratory labor.-- 16. The parade of races in California agriculture.--17. History of living conditions among migratory laborers in California.

Subject:

n-us-ca
Agriculture -- California
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California
Working class
African Americans -- California
Indians of North America -- California
Strikes and lockouts -- California
Mexicans -- California
Agriculture -- Californie
Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Californie
Travailleurs
Noirs américains -- Californie
Peuples autochtones -- Californie
Grèves et lock-out -- Californie
Mexicains -- Californie
working class
workers
African Americans
Agriculture
Indians of North America
Mexicans
Migrant agricultural laborers
Strikes and lockouts
Working class
California

Note:

17 monographs (typescript), many of them with emendations by Raymond P. Barry, editor.
Also available in digital format: accessible through Online Archive of California.

Physical Description:

print
1 box (1,330 pages)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 72/187 cLOCAL

Origin:

California