Richard Steven Street
Biographic Data
| ID | 1121144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Steven Street |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Street |
| SIGNATURE | STREET R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Channel Islands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Picturing Class
Employed by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis W. Hine crisscrossed Vermont during August 1910 in search of industrial sites where he might record images of children at work. In a North Pownal cotton mill he photographed a young girl, twelve-year-old Addie Card, “an anemic little spinner,” whose smock-like dress, stuffed full of her tools, was stained by grease, oil, and dirt (p. 21). Hine knew exactly what he was doing. Since the e…
Pacific Visions
Other| February 01 2008 Pacific Visions Richard Steven Street Richard Steven Street Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2008) 77 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2008.77.1.151 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ric…
Poverty in the Valley of Plenty
Seeking to establish a base for organizing California farmworkers, the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) between 1948 and 1950 led a strike against DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation, the state's preeminent farming operation. Featuring several new developments—among them huge car and truck caravans of strikers that were described as ‘the world's longest picket line’ and a secondary boycott of DiGiorgio products that inaugurated a tactic that would later …
Lange's Antecedents
Photographers focusing on California farmworkers are often described as heirs to a tradition that emerged midway through the Great Depression, mainly from the heroic efforts of one iconic photographer, Dorothea Lange. By calling attention to a diverse group of underappreciated antecedents who have never been linked together, this article presents a more sequential, less tidy account of how social documentary photography focused on farmworkers in …
Beasts of the Field
Journal Article Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913 Get access Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913. By Street Richard Steven. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xxv + 904 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas California State University Channel Islands Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Beasts of the Field
Written 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 history—the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials—more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mex…
Knife Fight City, The Poorest Town in California
Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants
Research Article| November 01 1998 Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants: Accommodation, Protest, and the Coarse Culture of California Wheat Harvesters and Threshers, 1866-1900 Richard Steven Street Richard Steven Street Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1998) 67 (4): 573–608. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641187 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike
(1998). The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike: A New Ending. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 193-199
Salinas on Strike
In September 1936, the packing shed workers in Salinas, California went out on strike. As they set up picket lines around the ice packing plants, their employers hired armed deputies, fortified their packing plants with 10 feet high chain link fences, deployed machine guns in towers behind the fences, and began shipping in strikebreakers from small towns outside the strike area.1
Annual rabbit slaughter
An outpost of empire, walled-off from Los Angeles and the coast by mountains, Bakersfield, California, in the 1850s and '60s presented few opportunities for aspiring photographers. In such an environment, there were just two ways to earn a living with a camera. One was to become an itinerant photographer, and circulate from ranch to ranch, setting up shop for a few days, and executing portraits of homesteaders and vaqueros, who were eager to trad…
Paul S. Taylor and the origins of documentary photography in California, 1927–1934
Contrary to most of what has been written on the subject, the documentary tradition in California photography did not spring entirely from the economic and psychological blight of the Great Depression. There were experimenters and pioneers who, on their own initiative, without government or institutional backing, in response to specific personal and professional commitments, during the years between 1900 and 1930, compiled photographic records wi…
Poverty in the Valley of Plenty
Seeking to establish a base for organizing California farmworkers, the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) between 1948 and 1950 led a strike against DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation, the state's preeminent farming operation. Featuring several new developments—among them huge car and truck caravans of strikers that were described as ‘the world's longest picket line’ and a secondary boycott of DiGiorgio products that inaugurated a tactic that would later …
Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants
Research Article| November 01 1998 Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants: Accommodation, Protest, and the Coarse Culture of California Wheat Harvesters and Threshers, 1866-1900 Richard Steven Street Richard Steven Street Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1998) 67 (4): 573–608. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641187 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike
(1998). The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike: A New Ending. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 193-199
Paul S. Taylor and the origins of documentary photography in California, 1927–1934
Contrary to most of what has been written on the subject, the documentary tradition in California photography did not spring entirely from the economic and psychological blight of the Great Depression. There were experimenters and pioneers who, on their own initiative, without government or institutional backing, in response to specific personal and professional commitments, during the years between 1900 and 1930, compiled photographic records wi…
Annual rabbit slaughter
An outpost of empire, walled-off from Los Angeles and the coast by mountains, Bakersfield, California, in the 1850s and '60s presented few opportunities for aspiring photographers. In such an environment, there were just two ways to earn a living with a camera. One was to become an itinerant photographer, and circulate from ranch to ranch, setting up shop for a few days, and executing portraits of homesteaders and vaqueros, who were eager to trad…
Salinas on Strike
In September 1936, the packing shed workers in Salinas, California went out on strike. As they set up picket lines around the ice packing plants, their employers hired armed deputies, fortified their packing plants with 10 feet high chain link fences, deployed machine guns in towers behind the fences, and began shipping in strikebreakers from small towns outside the strike area.1
Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants
Research Article| November 01 1998 Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants: Accommodation, Protest, and the Coarse Culture of California Wheat Harvesters and Threshers, 1866-1900 Richard Steven Street Richard Steven Street Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1998) 67 (4): 573–608. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641187 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike
(1998). The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Strike: A New Ending. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 193-199
Knife Fight City, The Poorest Town in California
Beasts of the Field
Written 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 history—the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials—more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mex…
Beasts of the Field
Journal Article Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913 Get access Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913. By Street Richard Steven. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xxv + 904 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas California State University Channel Islands Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Lange's Antecedents
Photographers focusing on California farmworkers are often described as heirs to a tradition that emerged midway through the Great Depression, mainly from the heroic efforts of one iconic photographer, Dorothea Lange. By calling attention to a diverse group of underappreciated antecedents who have never been linked together, this article presents a more sequential, less tidy account of how social documentary photography focused on farmworkers in …
Poverty in the Valley of Plenty
Seeking to establish a base for organizing California farmworkers, the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) between 1948 and 1950 led a strike against DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation, the state's preeminent farming operation. Featuring several new developments—among them huge car and truck caravans of strikers that were described as ‘the world's longest picket line’ and a secondary boycott of DiGiorgio products that inaugurated a tactic that would later …
Pacific Visions
Other| February 01 2008 Pacific Visions Richard Steven Street Richard Steven Street Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2008) 77 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2008.77.1.151 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ric…
Picturing Class
Employed by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis W. Hine crisscrossed Vermont during August 1910 in search of industrial sites where he might record images of children at work. In a North Pownal cotton mill he photographed a young girl, twelve-year-old Addie Card, “an anemic little spinner,” whose smock-like dress, stuffed full of her tools, was stained by grease, oil, and dirt (p. 21). Hine knew exactly what he was doing. Since the e…
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