Thursday, November 19, 2009

For the GoW part of the essay

From Yesterday:

Okies/Mexicans (or SE Asians or Chinese or…)

  1. Reasons for leaving: 1, 5, 9
  2. Difficulty of the journey: 3, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19
  3. Treatment upon arrival: 17, 19, 21, 25
  4. Housing: 17, 19, 23

For Today

Corporate farming v. small farmer—In the Dust Bowl?

  1. Vertical Integration
  2. Canneries: 21 (238)
  3. Pushing out small farmers: 5 (31-33), 11, 22 (295)
  1. Farm labor contractors
    1. Handbills: 16 KOA Porch *(needs earlier, too Oklahoma? River?)
    2. In Hooverville: 20 (264)
    3. Weedpatch/Just outside Weedpatch (Hooper Ranch Guy): 26, 27 (364)
    4. Cotton Picking: 27
  2. Machines taking Over
    1. Tractors in Oklahoma: 5 (35-36)
    2. Tractors in California: 19 (237)
    3. Cotton Picking 27 (407)
  3. Unions v Owners
    1. Especially Hooper Ranch: 26
    2. "Reds": 26, 19
    3. Agitators/Trouble Makers: 16 KOA

1 comment:

Melanie mae said...

It really helped when I was writing my essay to have chapters to look to. When I needed quotes from the book and was thinking of a certain spot I checked these chapters.