carey mcwilliams there's something very similar for the agricultural industry. he's the first one to really write about california from an immigrant lens. he writes about mexican laws and filipinos, and he really is trying to write about this new vision of the united states, one based on immigrants and workers here, too, like sinclair, is a political leftist and an activist and these could be seen as parallel books. but what changes this is up to? about the 19th thirties. okay. and then in the early 1940s, we have the run up to world war two. okay. and in world war two and war business all of a sudden is having a labor shortage. you begin to have more and more workers. and in the industry, you also have men who are going to fight in world war two. and this means large agricultural industry in california are starting to say, wait a second, who's going to actually pick the crops? right. we're not having as many workers as we're used to. we don't have enough people at the time of the harvest. and so they want the us government as well as the mexican government to b