Frontmatter -- Editors’ Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Seasonal Farm Laborers -- 2. Fruit and Vegetable Workers -- 3. The Economics of Fruit and Vegetable Labor -- 4. Workers in Sugar Beets -- 5. Seasonal Farm Labor in the Postwar Era -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index

Examines the attitude of the Eastern working-men towards the national land policy during the half century preceding the Civil War. Specifically examines the organized labor and public lands, the evolution of national reform, national reform in politics, land policies and congressional...