Black Labor, White Sugar : Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry /

Philip A. Howard traces the socioeconomic and political circumstances in Haiti and Jamaica that led men to leave their homelands to cut, load, and haul sugarcane in Cuba. Once there, the field workers, or braceros, were subject to marginalization and even violence from the sugar companies, which use...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Howard, Philip A., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Protestbewegung
Zuckerindustrie
Schwarze
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Sugarcane industry > Social aspects.
Sugar workers.
Protest movements.
Labor movement.
Foreign workers, Jamaican.
Foreign workers, Haitian.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Mouvement ouvrier > Cuba > Histoire.
Canne à sucre > Industrie > Aspect social > Cuba > Histoire.
Travailleurs etrangers jamaïquains > Cuba > Histoire.
Travailleurs etrangers haïtiens > Cuba > Histoire.
Protest movements > Cuba > History.
Labor movement > Cuba > History.
Jamaicans > Cuba > Politics and government.
Haitians > Cuba > Politics and government.
Sugarcane industry > Social aspects > Cuba > History.
Foreign workers, Jamaican > Cuba > History.
Foreign workers, Haitian > Cuba > History.
Sugar workers > Cuba > History.
Cuba.
Haiti
Kuba
Jamaika
Cuba > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Cuba > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Philip A. Howard traces the socioeconomic and political circumstances in Haiti and Jamaica that led men to leave their homelands to cut, load, and haul sugarcane in Cuba. Once there, the field workers, or braceros, were subject to marginalization and even violence from the sugar companies, which used structures of race, ethnicity, color, and class to subjugate these laborers. Howard argues that braceros drew on their cultural identities--from concepts of home and family to spiritual worldviews--to interpret and contest their experiences in Cuba. They also fought against their exploitation in more overt ways. As labor conditions worsened in response to falling sugar prices, the principles of anarcho-syndicalism converged with the Pan-African philosophy of Marcus Garvey to foster the evolution of a protest culture among black Caribbean laborers. By the mid-1920s, this identity encouraged many braceros to participate in strikes that sought to improve wages as well as living and working conditions. --Publisher description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780807159538

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