Farm labor camps

Most people are familiar with the federal camps that John Steinbeck made famous with his novel The Grapes of Wrath, when the federal government came in and set up massive tent cities for the immigrants from the Dust Bowl. But before that, in the early thirties, most of the immigrants stayed in company camps.

On my mother’s birth certificate, on the line that is reserved for the name of the hospital, it says “DiGiorgio Farms.” She was born in the Mexican camp.