Witnesses to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement - Hardcover

Loftis, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874173051 ISBN 13: 9780874173055

Publisher: University of Nevada Press, 1998

Synopsis

Examines the relationship between art and journalism in the 1930s, and discusses how intellectuals strove to be relevant during this trying time by using their own involvement in labor struggles to influence their art.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Loftis is a journalist and researcher and the coauthor of The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II and A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America’s Farm Workers and author of California--Where the Twain Did Meet. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

Review:

"Witnesses to the Struggle is a wonderful book, beautifully written and must read for labor, ethnic, economic, western, and social/cultural historians, and for those who treasure Americana." —Choice

“The 1930s were a time, as [John] Steinbeck put it, when a tremendous amount of human drama unfolded for artists, writers and photographers to record. Loftis has captured the sense of drive and urgency that was felt then, both by the labor organizers and those recording the events.” —Palo Alto Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0874173051
• ISBN 13: 9780874173055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256