Contracting freedom : race, empire, and U.S. guestworker programs /

"This book represents the first scholarly attempt to examine the broad geographical dimensions of the World War II U.S. contract farm labor programs together and in sweeping detail. It views these labor programs relationally and in tandem to reveal how they were co-constituted and mutually unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quintana, Maria, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
Temas:
Seasonal Farm Laborers Program.
1900-1999
Agricultural laborers, Foreign > United States > History > 20th century.
Foreign workers > United States > History > 20th century.
Contract labor > United States > History > 20th century.
Race relations > History > 20th century.
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Travailleurs agricoles étrangers > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Main-d'œuvre contractuelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Impérialisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Agricultural laborers, Foreign.
Contract labor.
Foreign workers.
Imperialism.
Race relations.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION Freedom Struggles and the Labor Contract
  • CHAPTER 1 Free or Slave?: A Genealogy of Labor Contract Coercion and Freedom
  • CHAPTER 2 Good Neighbors?: Contract Labor and the Limits of Freedom During the New Deal
  • CHAPTER 3 Japanese Braceros: The Co-Constitution of the Bracero Program and Japanese American Incarceration
  • CHAPTER 4 From Civil Rights to Immigration Restriction: The Search for U.S. Labor Rights in the 1950s
  • CHAPTER 5 Boricua Braceros: The New Deal and the U.S.-Puerto Rican Farm Labor Program
  • CHAPTER 6 Empire and Nation: Caribbean Independence and the Labor Programs in the British West Indies
  • EPILOGUE Civil Rights for Whom?: U.S. Civil Rights and the Labor Importation Programs
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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