Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 333 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691102686
,
1400840023
,
9780691102689
,
9781400840021
Series Statement:
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Content:
From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and they had few rights. Indeed, instead of creating a manageable form of migration, guestworker programs created an especially vulnerable class of labor
Content:
Introduction -- Guestworkers of the world, unite! : you have nothing to lose but your passport, your visa, your immigration status -- Everything but a gun to their heads : the politics of labor scarcity and the birth of World War II guestworker programs -- "Stir it up" : Jamaican guestworkers in the promised land -- John Bull meets Jim Crow : Jamaican guestworkers in the wartime South -- The race to the bottom : making wartime temporary worker programs permanent and private -- A riotous success : guestworkers, "illegal immigrants, " and the promise of managed migration -- The worst job in the world : the Cuban Revolution, the war on poverty, and the secret rebellion in Florida's cane fields -- Takin' it to the courts : legal services, the UFW, and the battle for the worst jobs in the world -- "For all those bending years" : IRCA, the dog war, and the campaign for legal status -- All the world's a workplace : guestworkers at the turn of the twenty-first century
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691102689
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691102686
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hahamovitch, Cindy No man's land Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011
Language:
English
URL:
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