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The Great Depression struck California hard, just as it did countless other states and nations. It also helped remake California, writes Kevin Starr in this fourth installment of his multivolume history of the state. The Depression brought a massive influx of hopeful refugees to California from elsewhere in the United States, including 300,000 new agricultural workers--the people of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. These newcomers worked in the fields and stores for fifteen cents an hour while Hollywood made movies about their lot, Woody Guthrie sang songs about them, and union organizers tried hard to make a labor-based revolution. The fortunes of these "Okies" is just one of the sweeping topics that Starr, a fine writer and imaginative chronicler, takes on in this book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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California during the Depression was a battleground where socialists, labor activists and free-speech advocates faced often violent resistance from a militant right using vigilante squads, tear gas- wielding police, suppression of civil liberties, and antiunion crackdowns. In a vibrant, engrossing chronicle (the fifth volume in his Americans and the Californian Dream series), Starr, California's State Librarian, reclaims the Depression-era Golden State as an important chapter in the American experiment. He charts the struggles of Wobblies, of striking waterfront workers and of thousands of migrant dust-bowl, Mexican and Filipino farmworkers who challenged the agribusiness oligarchy. Socialist novelist Upton Sinclair's 1934 gubernatorial bid on the Democratic ticket, buttressing his End Poverty in California (EPIC) campaign, was defeated by a combination of big money and Hollywood fund-raising. Although California, then a right-of-center Republican state, resisted Roosevelt's New Deal, its migrant camps aided the displaced poor, and an unprecedented public works program revitalized the economy, creating schools, dams, parks, urban improvement projects and the Golden Gate Bridge. Photos.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The Great Depression struck California hard, just as it did countless other states and nations. It also helped remake California, writes Kevin Starr in this fourth installment of his multivolume history of the state. The Depression brought a massive influx of hopeful refugees to California from elsewhere in the United States, including 300,000 new agricultural workers--the people of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. These newcomers worked in the fields and stores for fifteen cents an hour while Hollywood made movies about their lot, Woody Guthrie sang songs about them, and union organizers tried hard to make a labor-based revolution. The fortunes of these "Okies" is just one of the sweeping topics that Starr, a fine writer and imaginative chronicler, takes on in this book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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California during the Depression was a battleground where socialists, labor activists and free-speech advocates faced often violent resistance from a militant right using vigilante squads, tear gas- wielding police, suppression of civil liberties, and antiunion crackdowns. In a vibrant, engrossing chronicle (the fifth volume in his Americans and the Californian Dream series), Starr, California's State Librarian, reclaims the Depression-era Golden State as an important chapter in the American experiment. He charts the struggles of Wobblies, of striking waterfront workers and of thousands of migrant dust-bowl, Mexican and Filipino farmworkers who challenged the agribusiness oligarchy. Socialist novelist Upton Sinclair's 1934 gubernatorial bid on the Democratic ticket, buttressing his End Poverty in California (EPIC) campaign, was defeated by a combination of big money and Hollywood fund-raising. Although California, then a right-of-center Republican state, resisted Roosevelt's New Deal, its migrant camps aided the displaced poor, and an unprecedented public works program revitalized the economy, creating schools, dams, parks, urban improvement projects and the Golden Gate Bridge. Photos.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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IN order to understand the intensity of labor strife in California during the Depression of the 1930s, one must grasp a simple but elusive dynamic in the labor culture of the state, which was centered in and controlled by San Francisco. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
apricot pickers, great maritime strike, migrant crisis, lettuce packers, cannery strike, cotton strike, deputized vigilantes, mimeographed typescript, coast seamen, lettuce strike, waterfront employers, pea pickers, criminal syndicalism, documentary art, agricultural strikes, public works infrastructure, migrant mother, intake towers, bound typescript, hop pickers, interstate migration, agricultural work force, migrant camps, free speech fight, tear gas bombs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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IN order to understand the intensity of labor strife in California during the Depression of the 1930s, one must grasp a simple but elusive dynamic in the labor culture of the state, which was centered in and controlled by San Francisco. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
apricot pickers, great maritime strike, migrant crisis, lettuce packers, cannery strike, cotton strike, deputized vigilantes, mimeographed typescript, coast seamen, lettuce strike, waterfront employers, pea pickers, criminal syndicalism, documentary art, agricultural strikes, public works infrastructure, migrant mother, intake towers, bound typescript, hop pickers, interstate migration, agricultural work force, migrant camps, free speech fight, tear gas bombs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Los Angeles, United States, Southern California, Associated Farmers, Hetch Hetchy, Upton Sinclair, New York, San Diego, Imperial Valley, The Grapes of Wrath, Harry Bridges, New Deal, Golden Gate Bridge, Pacific Coast, Central Valley, Industrial Association, Communist Party, Hoover Dam, San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area, Art Deco, Chamber of Commerce, San Quentin, Paul Taylor New!
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