Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: The National Farm Labor Union, DiGiorgio Farms, and suppression of documentary photography in California, 1947-66

Labor History

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-48

  Street, Richard Steven ^a  

^a NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   (United States)

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EID: 33847046791     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: 14699702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00236560601054116     Document Type: Review

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