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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Vaught. Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920. (Revisiting Rural America.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 280. $38.00.

With all that has been written about rural labor relations in California, it is surprising that so little has been written about rural employers. In this book, David Vaught makes the argument that growers need to be understood on their own terms. Vaught seeks to understand the growers in their "cultural context," but this is surely the book's most problematic element. 1

The author revisits a number of thorny subjects, including the infamous Wheatland riot of August 1913. Vaught presents many new aspects of the confrontation and the subsequent political turmoil surrounding the trial of two members of the International Workers of the World (IWW). He navigates the thicket of progressive agencies and misplaced intentions with ability, and the detail of this discussion is definitive. Yet when Vaught concludes that the events of Wheatland diminished the growers' "credibility as cultural guardians," he reasserts an insubstantial argument. . . .

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