ABSTRACT
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” as Charles Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities, his novel of the French Revolution. So it was with the RA/FSA camps for migrant farm workers. No two were the same. The mix of local circumstances, managerial competence and the campers themselves could produce strikingly diverse outcomes in the mood of the camps, and even their corporate personalities over time. Some camps just seemed to remain unhappy, others not. One way to explore the difference is to look more closely at two examples, one taken from each extreme.
