California in the 1930s: A Bibliography

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS

Athern, Leigh. The California State Relief Administration. 1935-1939. (1939).

Carlson, Oliver. A Mirror for Californians. (New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1941).

Dunn, William F. The Great San Francisco General Strike. (New York, Workers Library, 1934).

Eliel, Paul. The Waterfront and General Strikes. (San Francisco, Hooper Printing Co., 1934).

Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus; A Record Of Human Erosion. (New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939).

McWilliams, Carey. Factories In The Field; The Story Of Migratory Farm Labor In California (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1939).  

Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked. (Los Angeles: End Poverty League, 1935).

Sinclair, Upton. I, Governor Of California, And How I Ended: A True Story Of The Future / by Upton Sinclair. (Los Angeles: End Poverty League, 1934).  

Steinbeck, John. The Harvest Gypsies: On The Road To The Grapes Of Wrath; introduction by Charles Wollenberg. (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1988, c1936).

Steinbeck, John.  "Their Blood Is Strong." (San Francisco, Calif., Simon J. Lubin society of California, inc., 1938).  

Wolf, Paul N.  Economic Trends in California, 1929-1934 (1935). 

 

GENERAL

Lowitt, Richard. The New Deal And The West. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984).

Mullins, William H. The Depression And The Urban West Coast, 1929-1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).

Starr, Kevin. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression In California (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Starr, Kevin. The Dream Endures: California Enters The 1940s. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).  

FARMWORKERS/AGRICULTURE

Chambers, Clarke A. California Farm Organizations; A Historical Study Of The Grange, The Farm Bureau, And The Associated Farmers, 1929-1941. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952).

Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest, A History Of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981).

DeWitt, Howard A.. Violence In The Fields: California Filipino Farm Labor Unionization During The Great Depression. (Saratoga, Calif.: Century Twenty One Pub., 1980).

Healey, Dorothy. California Red: A Life In The American Communist Party (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1993).

Loftis, Anne. Witnesses To The Struggle: Imaging The 1930s California Labor Movement. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, c1998).

McWilliams, Carey. Factories In The Field; The Story Of Migratory Farm Labor In California (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1939).

Weber, Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, And The New Deal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).

 

LOS ANGELES

Benjamin Griffith. The Great Wrong Place : Images Of The Southern California Landscape In The 1930s. (1981).

Henstell, Bruce.  Sunshine and Wealth: Los Angeles in the Twenties an Thirties (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984).

Hise, Greg and William Deverell. Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

Leader, Leonard Joseph. Los Angeles and the Great Depression (New York: Garland, 1991).

Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).

McWilliams, Carey. Southern California Country, An Island On The Land. (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946).

Tygiel, Jules. The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, And Scandal During The Roaring Twenties. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

 

EPIC CAMPAIGN

Higginbottom, George Hjelm. EPIC By The Bay: A Voting Study Of The Gubernatorial Election Of 1934 In San Francisco (1965).

Mitchell, Greg. The Campaign Of The Century: Upton Sinclair's Race For Governor Of California And The Birth Of Media Politics (New York: Random House, 1992).

Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked. (Los Angeles: End Poverty League, 1935).

Sinclair, Upton. I, Governor Of California, And How I Ended: A True Story Of The Future / by Upton Sinclair. (Los Angeles: End Poverty League, 1934).

Smith, Jerry S. The Rejection Of A Writer: Upton Sinclair's Unsuccessful Race For Governor Of California, 1934 (San Francisco: California State University, San Francisco, 1972).

 

SAN FRANCISCO LABOR

Cushman, Richard Alan. The Communist Party And The Waterfront Strike Of 1936-1937: The San Francisco Story. (San Francisco: San Francisco State College, 1970).

Dunn, William F. The Great San Francisco General Strike. (New York, Workers Library, 1934).

Eliel, Paul. The Waterfront and General Strikes. (San Francisco, Hooper Printing Co., 1934).

Larrowe, Charles P. Harry Bridges: The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the United States.  (New York: L. Hill, 1972). 

Nelson, Bruce, Workers On The Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, And Unionism In The 1930s. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).

Schwartz, Harvey. The March Inland: Origins Of The Ilwu Warehouse Division, 1934-1938 (Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1978).

Selvin, David F. A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront And General Strikes In San Francisco (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996).

Quin, Mike [pseud.] The Big Strike. (Olema, Calif.: Olema Pub. Co., 1949).

 

MEXICAN AMERICANS

Balderrama, Francisco E. In Defense Of La Raza, The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate, And The Mexican Community, 1929 To 1936 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982.)

Hoffman, Abraham. Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression; Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974).

Monroy, Douglas. Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles From The Great Migration To The Great Depression. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).

Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, And The California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1987).

Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, And Identity In Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

 

ASIAN AMERICANS

Yoneda, Karl G., 1906-. Ganbatte: Sixty-Year Struggle Of A Kibei Worker /, by Karl G. Yoneda. (Los Angeles: Resource Development and Publications, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983).

Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming The Home Place: A Japanese American Community In California, 1919-1982 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993).

 

OKIE MIGRATION

Gregory, James Noble. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration And Okie Culture In California. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus; A Record Of Human Erosion. (New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939).

Stein, Walter J.  California And The Dust Bowl Migration. (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1973)

Steinbeck, John. The Harvest Gypsies: On The Road To The Grapes Of Wrath; introduction by Charles Wollenberg. (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1988, c1936).

Steinbeck, John.  "Their Blood Is Strong." (San Francisco, Calif., Simon J. Lubin society of California, inc., 1938).  

TOWNSEND MOVEMENT

Holtzman, Abraham. The Townsend Movement: A Political Study. (New York: Octagon Books, 1975, 1963).

Putnam, Jackson K. Old-Age Politics In California; From Richardson To Reagan, [By] Jackson K. Putnam. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1970).

 

COMMUNISM

Healey, Dorothy. California Red: A Life In The American Communist Party (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1993).

Raineri, Vivian McGuckin. The Red Angel: The Life And Times Of Elaine Black Yoneda. (New York, N.Y.: International Publishers, 1991).

Yoneda, Karl G.  Ganbatte: Sixty-Year Struggle Of A Kibei Worker /, by Karl G. Yoneda. (Los Angeles: Resource Development and Publications, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983).    

 

OTHER POLITICS/MOVEMENTS

Burke, Robert E. Olson's New Deal For California. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953).

Farrell, Harry. Swift Justice: Murder And Vengeance In A California Town. (New York: St. Martin's, 1992).

Hine, Robert V. California Utopianism: Contemplations Of Eden. (San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser, 1981).  

Worthen, James Governor James Rolph And the Great Depression in California (MacFarland, 2006)

HOLLYWOOD

Baxter, John. Hollywood In The Thirties. (London, A. Zwemmer; New York, A. S. Barnes, 1968).

Bergman, Andrew. We're In The Money: Depression America And Its Films. (New York, New York University Press, 1971).

Berman, Stephanie. Hollywood Wives And Others: The Identification Of Screen Stars And American Women In Consumer Culture In The 1930s. (1990).

Berry, Sarah, 1962-. Screen Style : Fashion And Femininity In 1930s Hollywood. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

Billingsley, Lloyd. Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced The American Film Industry In The 1930s And 1940s (Rocklin, CA: Forum, 1998).

Clark, Danae A. Actors' Labor And The Politics Of Subjectivity: Hollywood In The 1930s. [1989].

Kendall, Elizabeth. The Runaway Bride : Hollywood Romantic Comedy Of The 1930's. (New York: Knopf, 1990).

Marx, Samuel.  A Gaudy Spree : The Literary Life Of Hollywood In The 1930s When The West Was Fun. (New York : F. Watts, 1987).

Paine, Jefferey Morton. The Simplification Of American Life : Hollywood Films Of The 1930's. (New York : Arno Press, 1977).

Roffman, Peter. The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair, And Politics From The Depression To The Fifties. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).

Stanfield, Peter. Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930s : The Lost Trail. (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001).

Weales, Gerald Clifford. Canned Goods As Caviar : American Film Comedy Of The 1930s, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Winokur, Mark. American Laughter : Immigrants, Ethnicity, And 1930s Hollywood Film Comedy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996).  

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LITERATURE

Barnard, Rita. The Great Depression And The Culture of Abundance : Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s (New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Hiney, Tom. Raymond Chandler: A Biography (New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997).

MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler.  (New York : E. P. Dutton, 1976).

Thorpe, Edward. Chandlertown The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe.  (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983)

Van Dover, J.K. . ed. The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995).

Veitch, Jonathan. American Superrealism : Nathanael West and The Politics of Representation in the 1930s. (Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).

Wells, Walter. Tycoons And Locusts; A Regional Look At Hollywood Fiction Of The 1930s. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1973).

 

Construction Projects

Carpenter, Patricia F.and Paul Totah. The San Francisco Fair : Treasure Island, 1939-1940  (San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1989).

Van der Zee, John. The Gate : The True Story Of The Design And Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge (New York : Simon and Schuster, 1986).