Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?

by GilbertG. Gonzalez

Overview

While a few commentators have recognized the parallels of the guest worker programs for Mexican immigrants to the United States to the bracero policies early in the 20th century, fewer still connect those policies to traditional forms of colonial labor exploitation such as that practiced respectively by the British and French colonial regimes in In

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351564786
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

GilbertG. Gonzalez

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 Imperialism and Labor: Mexican, Indian, and Algerian Labor Migrations in Comparative Perspective, Chapter 2 Recruiting, Processing, and Transporting Bracero Labor to the United States, Chapter 3 In Defense of Indentured Labor, Chapter 4 Economic Power Versus Academic Freedom: The Case of Henry P Anderson and the University of California, Chapter 5 Indentured Labor: A Convention in U.S.-Mexico Relations, Chapter 6 The Hispanic Challenge? Or the Imperialist Challenge?, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

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