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Sweet tyranny : migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics / Kathleen Mapes.

By: Series: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.Description: xi, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780252034367 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252034368 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252076671 (pbk.)
  • 0252076672 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.5/440977 22
LOC classification:
  • HD1527.M54 M37 2009
Contents:
Rural industrialization and imperial politics -- Contract farming in rural Michigan -- Family farms, child labor, and migrant families -- Farmers and the Great War -- Immigrant labor and the guest worker program -- Mexican immigrants and immigration debate -- Child labor reformers and industrial agriculture -- Remaking imperialism and the industrial countryside -- The politics of migrant labor.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD1527 .M54 M37 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001077295

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-300) and index.

Rural industrialization and imperial politics -- Contract farming in rural Michigan -- Family farms, child labor, and migrant families -- Farmers and the Great War -- Immigrant labor and the guest worker program -- Mexican immigrants and immigration debate -- Child labor reformers and industrial agriculture -- Remaking imperialism and the industrial countryside -- The politics of migrant labor.

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