Paul Schuster Taylor

Paul Schuster Taylor (* 1895 in Sioux City , † 1984 in San Francisco ) was a socially committed social scientist. He was Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1922 until his retirement in 1962 .

Life

Taylor played a key role in research projects within the New Deal and, together with his wife, photographer Dorothea Lange , documented both the misery of farm workers during the Depression and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II .

The Sailors' union of the Pacific , New York: The Ronald press company, 1923.
Marine labor union leadership , San Francisco, 1925.
Mexican labor in the United States , Berkeley: University of California press, 1928-34.
A Spanish-Mexican peasant community , Berkeley: University of California press, 1933.
An American-Mexican frontier , Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press, 1934.
California Farm Laboratory, 1937
Taylor, Paul Schuster and Lange, Dorothea: American Exodus , New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, c1939.
Adrift on the land , New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1940.
Venezuela , Caracas, 1960.
Communist strategy and tactics of employing peasant dissatisfaction over conditions of land tenure for revolutionary ends in Vietnam , Washington: US Govt. Print. Off., 1970.
Georgia plan , Berkeley: Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, 1971 / c1972.
Essays on land, water, and the law in California , New York: Arno Press, 1979. ISBN 0405113943 .
Lange, Dorothea and Taylor, Paul Schuster: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935–1939 , Glencoe: Text-Fiche Press, 1980. ISBN 0899690025 .
Labor on the land , New York: Arno Press, 1981. ISBN 0405142080 .
On the ground in the thirties , Salt Lake City: G. M. Smith, 1983. ISBN 0879051426 .

Goggans, Jan: California on the breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the making of a New Deal narrative , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 9780520266216 .