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Making the empire work : labor and United States imperialism /
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Culture, labor, history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: U.S. Empire through the Lens of Labor History; PART I. SOLIDARITIES AND RESISTANCE; 1. The Wages of Empire: Capitalism, Expansionism, and Working-Class Formation; 2. Revolutionary Currents: Interracial Solidarities, Imperial Japan, and the U.S. Empire; 3. The Secret Soldiers' Union: Labor and Soldier Politics in the Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924; 4. The Photos That We Don't Get to See: Sovereignties, Archives, and the 1928 Massacre of Banana Workers in Colombia; PART II. INTIMACIES IN COLONIAL SPACES.
- 5. Sexual Labor and the U.S. Military Empire: Comparative Analysis of Europe and East Asia6. Making Aloha: Lei and the Cultural Labor of Hospitality; PART III. MIGRATION AND MOBILIZING LABOR FOR THE EMPIRE; 7. The Advantages of Empire: Chinese Servants and Conflicts over Settler Domesticity in the "White Pacific," 1870-1900; 8. Empire and the Moving Body: Fermin Tobera, Military California, and Rural Space; 9. Slavery's Stale Soil: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire; PART IV. IMPERIAL LABOR AND CONTROL IN THE TROPICS.
- 10. The Colonization of Antislavery and the Americanization of Empires: The Labor of Autonomy and the Labor of Subordination in Togo and the United States11. Progressive Empire: Race and Tropicality in United Fruit's Central America; 12. What Is Imperial about Coffee? Rethinking "Informal Empire"; 13. Home Land (In)security: The Labor of U.S. Cold War Military Empire in the Marshall Islands; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.