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This book was the first broad expos of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeckdramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industryChinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armeniansthe strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions