The Fruits of Their Labor : Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 /

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This study consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in the United States. Its approach yields a depth of information about farming culture not usually found in the literature on rural America. The book take...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hahamovitch, Cindy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arbeidsmigratie.
Armoede.
Landarbeiders.
Saisonarbeiter
Landarbeiter
Migrant agricultural laborers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > États de l'Atlantique (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > États-Unis > États de l'Atlantique > Histoire.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Atlantic States > History.
USA.
Atlantikküste
United States > Atlantic States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; The Fruits of Their Labor; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Epigraph; Introduction; 1: A Perfectly Irresistible Change; 2: The Sacrifice of Golden Boys and Girls; 3: Progressives as Padroni; 4: Work or Fight; 5: The Sunshine State Meets the Garden State; 6: Wards of the State; 7: Uncle Sam as Padrone; 8: The Union as Padrone; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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