Sweet tyranny [[electronic resource] ] : migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics / / Kathleen Mapes

• Autore: Mapes Kathleen <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.5/440977
• Soggetto topico: 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; Imperialism - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Middle West Rural conditions; United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-300) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sweet tyranny
• ISBN: 1-283-58301-1; 9786613895462; 0-252-09180-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785757003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Working class in American history.