Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest : Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Binford, Leigh, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2012]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Foreign workers > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleurs etrangers mexicains > Canada.
Travailleurs agricoles etrangers > Canada.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Canada.
Foreign workers > Government policy > Canada.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign > Canada.
Mexico.
Canada.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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