TY - BOOK AU - Mapes,Kathleen TI - Sweet tyranny: migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics T2 - The working class in American history SN - 9780252034367 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HD1527.M54 M37 2009 U1 - 331.5/440977 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Migrant agricultural laborers KW - Middle West KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Child migrant agricultural laborers KW - Agricultural laborers, Foreign KW - Rural industries KW - Industrialization KW - Agriculture and politics KW - Agriculture KW - Economic aspects KW - Imperialism KW - Rural conditions KW - United States KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Government policy N1 - 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 ER -