Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest : Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy /
From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally,...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2012]
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| Édition: | First edition. |
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : contract labor migration in theory and practice
- Agricultural crisis, migration, and contract labor : Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada
- The dual process of constructing Mexican contract workers
- "Tomorrow we're all going to the harvest" : case studies of contract labor migration
- Interrogating racialized global labor supply : Caribbean and Mexican workers in Canada's SAWP / Leigh Binford and Kerry Preibisch
- The seasonal agricultural worker program and Mexican development
- The political economy of contract labor in neoliberal North America : cheap labor and organized labor
- Globalization and temporary migrants : post-national citizens, realpolitik, and disposable labor power
- Appendix : the SAWP : saving the family farm or feeding corporate enterprise?


