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2. Arvin Federal Government Camp - Wikipedia

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   Arvin Federal Government Camp, also known as the Weedpatch Camp or Sunset Labor Camp, was built by the Farm Security Administration south of Bakersfield, California, in 1936 to house migrant workers during the Great Depression. The National Register of Historic Places placed several of its historic buildings on the registry on January 22, 1996.

3. Camp Tulelake - Wikipedia

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   Camp Tulelake was a federal work facility and War Relocation Authority isolation center located in Siskiyou County, five miles (8 km) west of Tulelake, California.It was established by the United States government in 1935 during the Great Depression for vocational training and work relief for young men, in a program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. [1]

4. Civil Works Administration - Wikipedia

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   The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34.

5. 6 In-Demand Skilled Trade Jobs And How To Get 'Em - AOL

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   Skilled tradespeople who can build, repair or maintain equipment that most lay people cannot do on their own can rake in the big bucks, especially if they build their talents up enough to take the ...

6. The Harvest Gypsies - Wikipedia

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   A year later, the labor surplus of the Depression had been transformed into an extraordinary wartime shortage of workers. Migrants who were not subject to military service found well-paying jobs in California's booming shipyards, aircraft factories and other defense plants.

7. Larry Itliong, Filipino American leader in the labor movement ...

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   “Larry Itliong is unfortunately one of those people who despite having done a tremendous amount of work in labor rights and the recognition of unions, is given a back seat in the American ...

8. In labor-friendly California, 2025 ushers in more worker ...

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   California lawmakers, by and large, are a labor-friendly bunch and, as in past years, they passed new workplace protections that take effect this year. In labor-friendly California, 2025 ushers in ...

9. Manual labour - Wikipedia

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   Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand ) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the ...