“Nature's Workshop”: The Work Environment and Workers' Bodies in California's Citrus Industry, 1900–1940

Gender

“…A slew of studies of labor and environmental history appeared in White's wake. Sackman (2000) looked at the work environment and the bodies of workers in the orchards of southern California; Chad Montrie (2008) used a number of case studies to show how labor and environmental history can illuminate one another. Among others, Blum (2008), Sackman (2005), and Montrie (2008), especially in his treatment of slavery and post-emancipation experiences of African Americans in the lower Mississippi, have tried to pay attention to both race and gender in their work, but clearly more attention is needed.…”