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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462755003321

Autore

Binford Leigh <1948->

Titolo

Tomorrow we're all going to the harvest [[electronic resource] ] : temporary foreign worker programs and neoliberal political economy / / by Leigh Binford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012

ISBN

0-292-74381-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Disciplina

331.5/44

Soggetti

Agricultural laborers, Foreign - Canada

Foreign workers - Government policy - Canada

Foreign workers, Mexican - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Emigration and immigration Economic aspects

Mexico Emigration and immigration Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Agricultural crisis, migration, and contract labor: Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada -- The dual process of constructing Mexican contract workers -- "Tomorrow we're all going to the harvest": case studies of contract labor migration -- Interrogating racialized global labor supply: Caribbean and Mexican workers in Canada's SAWP (by Kerry Preibisch and Leigh Binford) -- The seasonal agricultural worker program and Mexican development -- The political economy of contract labor in neoliberal North America: cheap labor and organized labor -- Globalization and temporary migrants: post-national citizens, realpolitik, and disposable labor power.