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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Auteur principal: Howard, Philip A., 1957-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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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