In this Book
- California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression’s most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private—they both divorced spouses to be together—collaborative, and richly productive. Lange and Taylor poured their considerable energies into the decade-long project of documenting the plight of California’s dispossessed, which in 1939 culminated in the publication of their landmark book, American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Jan Goggans blends biography, literature, and history to retrace the paths that brought Lange and Taylor together. She shows how American Exodus set forth a new way of understanding those in crisis during the economic disaster in California and ultimately informed the way we think about the Great Depression itself.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Prologue: Uncommon Ground
- pp. 1-6
- 1. From Belleau Wood to Berkeley
- pp. 7-36
- 2. The Magnet of the West
- pp. 37-74
- 3. Labor on the Land
- pp. 75-108
- 4. Far West Factories
- pp. 109-152
- 5. A New Social Order
- pp. 153-182
- 6. Women on the Breadlines
- pp. 183-230
- 7. An American Exodus
- pp. 231-260
- Conclusion: Can the Subaltern Speak?
- pp. 261-268
- Production Notes
- p. 346
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520945890
Related ISBN(s)
9780520266216
MARC Record
OCLC
773695280
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No