Migrant Workers in California essaysDuring the 1930's countless farm workers from the region known as the Dust Bowl came to California in search of a better life. Today, California remains one of the ideal spots for migrant workers to find job opportuni
Benny J. AndrésUniversity of California PressCalifornia HistoryAndres, Benny J. "Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s." California History 88, no. 4 (2011): 5-21, 63-65....
Johnson said that Lange’s bosses at the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s told her to focus on white migrants, whom federal officials hoped would elicit the strongest sympathy. Lange’s famed “Migrant Mother” has become a kind of enduring symbol of white motherhood, he said, althoug...
especially the migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.He recorded their dreams,hardships,and struggles.The 1930s also found Steinbeck struggling,though his hardship led his way to success.He was a writer of the people,who wrote for the people.He disclosed social cancers ...
Among other things, Steinbeck wrote about the hard lives of migrant workers(外来务工人员) and the strength of the human spirit. At various times, during his early years of writing, Steinbeck did various jobs. At the date of 27, Steinbeck’s first novel was published. Over his lifetime he...
In the 1930’s Tulelake was divided into two business camps. Tavern and bar owners advocated a “wide-open” town with booze and gambling attracting migrant workers, sportsmen, out-of-towners and locals who enjoyed the night life. These interests were opposed by the grocery and retail busines...
Also in the 1960s migrant farm workers in California formed a union and struck many growers to obtain better pay and working conditions. Unrest also occurred in the state's universities, especially the Univ. of California at Berkeley, where student demonstrations and protests in 1964 provoked ...
andracialtension inthegreat agriculturalvalleys.He setsforth the complexdivisionsbetweencorporatefarm managersand the migrantworkers,betweenthelocal,tax-payingresidents andthe newcomersfrom the Great Plains,between federal and county officials,between different factionsin the stateDemocraticparty- all thisin cle...
Bracero program in 1942. Mexican labor had filled this need in part during the first World War as well. Reminders of the migrant camps that housed these nomadic workers following the crop cycle can be seen in the San Jerardo complex that was once called Camp McCullum off of Old Stage Road...
(both Americans and European expatriates) as screenwriters into Hollywood in the 1930s and ’40s established little in the way of regional cultural tradition, and the California milieu became instead a favourite target of satire in such novels as Nathanael West’sThe Day of the Locust, Aldous ...