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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Adopting Black Caribbean workers
  • Subjugation of the braceros : life and work on the sugar estates
  • Social strategies of resistance : the disclosed and undisclosed lives of Black Caribbean braceros
  • The evolution and expression of a worker consciousness : Black Caribbean protest, resistance, and the Cuban labor movement
  • Garveyism without Garvey : a counter-ideology in the Black Caribbean communities
  • Multiple dominant ideologies : xenophobia and Cuban nationalism in the neocolonial context of Black Caribbean immigration
  • Epilogue.

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