This study breaks down and analyzes the eras of agriculture in Watsonville, into six sections: the earliest eras, diversification from 1866 to 1890, industrialization from 1890 to 1924, social tensions, the Bracero years, and unionizing and tension resolutions.

Notables: Rumsien, Ohlone, vaquero, Alejandro Onesimo, strawberry / strawberries, Chinese Exclusion Law, Alien Land Law of 1913, Sam Chinn, Robert Johnson, The Gilmore Colony, Daniel Gilmore, Scott Gilmore, Azores / Azorean, Eugene Casserly, Valley Catholic Church, Sugar Beet Revolution, Claus Spreckels, San Juan Batista, Alien Land Law of 1920, Bracero Program, Marco Rabasa, Valley of the Moon, Jack London, Eulogio Sanchez, Fermin Tobera, Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riots of 1930, Mary Oliver, manong, Dust Bowl, Florence Owens Thompson / Florence Thompson, Dorothea Lange, American Federation of Labor, Industrial Workers of the World, Filipino Labor Union, la Union de Trabajadores del Valle Imperial, Young Communist League of San Francisco, Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story, United Farmworkers Movement, National Farm Workers Association, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Teamsters Union, Agricultural Labor Relations Act, Jon Kersey, Watsonville Canning, Richard A Shaw Frozen Foods, Solidarity Rally and March, Arturo Rodriguez, Pro Workers Committee, The Coastal Berry of California Farm Workers Committee, Tarmo Hannula