Beasts of the FieldWritten by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western historythe emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materialsmore than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexicoto