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Migrant Workers in California. During the 1930's countless farm workers from the region known as the Dust Bowl came to California in search of a better life...
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The growers were able to play them off against anglos and other immigrant workers, especially during the depression years of the 1870's and early 1900's - when Asian workers were blamed for taking away jobs from "Americans." The result was racist laws excluding the Chinese (1882) and Japanese (1920) from the U.S.
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Aug 28, 2009 Were there any other options for migrant workers in 1930? As the Great Depression took a toll on California's economy during the 1930s,
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During the late 1930s, The maximum a worker could make was $400 a year, with the average about $300. Yet California's agricultural system could not exist without the migrant workers. It was a In addition, American unionism, with its traditional craft setup, did not welcome unskilled workers like farm laborers. In 1930,
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Besides the Depression, some parts of the country experienced drought during the 1930s. One hit the southeastern U. S. in 1930-1931 and also affected southeastern Oklahoma. Both programs addressed the issues of farm tenancy and migrant workers, and because of this they generated a substantial amount of controversy...
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A California minister's report of a labor camp in the Imperial Valley and Mexican American migrant farm workers during the 1930s' Great Depression.
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In fact, during the 30s hundreds of thousands left the plains for the West Coast. So many migrated from Oklahoma that they were dubbed "Okies" California – the state that had once advertised for more migrant workers – found themselves overwhelmed by up to 7,000 new migrants a month, more migrants than they needed.
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Until 1929 the labor market extended even into Central Mexico, and growers of beets, like the big cotton growers of Arizona and farmers of California, used all the influence they could muster to obtain congressional approval for seasonal importation of workers from Mexico.
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In 1920 there were 5,693 Filipinos living in the U.S., 3,300 in California. By 1930 45,208 Filipinos were living in the U.S. with 30,000 toiling They saw themselves as merely sojourners and there was no serious effort towards assimilation during this early period. Impact of World War II on Filipino Migrant Workers...
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