The collection contains research materials related to Fiske's doctoral dissertation, The College and its Constituency: Rural and Community Development at the University of California, 1875-1978. Also included are materials related to the lawsuit by the California Agrarian Action Project against the Regents of the University of California regarding agricultural mechanization research. In addition, the collection contains two audiocassettes and a transcript of a 1978 talk at UC Davis by Paul S. Taylor, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.

Professor of Community and Rural Sociology, Washington State University.

5.4 linear feet

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Collection is open for research.