The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. By Norris Hundley, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xix + 551 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 and Turning on Water with a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead. By James R. Kluger. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. xvii + 218 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95

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This is a review essay covering three recent books related to representations of farm labor in California: Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008); Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); Rick Nahmias, The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008).


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