Compare and contrast the current conditions of migrant farm workers in California with those of the migrants of the 1930s. Research current labor laws protecting the rights of these workers today. Have conditions improved in the last sixty years?
Besides drought, one cause for the tragedy of the Dust Bowl was poor farming practices— including overgrazing by cattle and failure of farmers to rotate their crops—which exhausted the land's resources......
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