Sweet tyranny : migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics / Kathleen Mapes.
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.)
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Child migrant agricultural laborers -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Rural industries -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Industrialization -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Agriculture and politics -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century
- Middle West -- Rural conditions
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
- Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
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- HD1527.M54 M37 2009
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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.