Factories in the Fields by McWILLIAMS, Carey - 1939

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A very good book in publisher's original oatmeal colored cloth boards. Stated first edition. No dust jacket. This was one of the seminal works of the 1930s that exposed the plight of farmers and farmworkers in California who were unkowning victims of agricultural barons who controlled most of the land in California. The book was published shortly after John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which focused attention on migrants and their farm bosses. McWilliams was a prolific writer who later became editor of The Nation magazine for more than 20 years.