During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy,...
Labor camps
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Author:Everhart, DonnaSummary: - Author:Galati, FrankSummary:
Presents a dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the Great Depression.
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some...
- Author:Golden, ChristopherSummary:
A documentary film crew in Siberia encounters otherworldly beasts and inexplicable phenomena along a highway built over a massive graveyard, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them.
- Author:Orton, KatharineSummary:
All that twelve-year-old Lina knows of the world is the Stalinist-labor camp where she was born, a place of hunger, cruelty, and deprivation. After a daring escape into the frigid Siberian wilds with her best friend, Bogdan, Lina vows...
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Author:Wang, NingSummary:Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives and other newly...
