1940 · Washington
by [WPA]: Menefee, Selden C., and Orin C. Cassmor
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940. xix,82pp. plus five plates. Quarto. Original blue textured cloth boards, front board and spine gilt. Light wear to boards and extremities. Ex-library, with label on lower spine and stamp on front free endpaper; bookplate and ownership inscription (Lyle Saunders) on front pastedown. Internally very clean and neat. Very good. A detailed WPA survey of the pecan shelling industry in the southwest. The report identifies the Mexican pecan shellers of San Antonio as "one of the most depressed groups of workers in the lower one-third of our population." Gives a history of the industry and attempts to stabilize it under the National Recovery Administration and Fair Labor Standards Act, and also examines the economic situation of the workers themselves. Uncommon in the trade.
(Inventory #: WRCAM56084)