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No man's land : Jamaican guestworkers in America and the global history of deportable labor / / Cindy Hahamovitch



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Autore: Hahamovitch Cindy Visualizza persona
Titolo: No man's land : Jamaican guestworkers in America and the global history of deportable labor / / Cindy Hahamovitch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
Disciplina: 331.6/27292073
Soggetto topico: Foreign workers - United States
Foreign workers
Noncitizens
Deportation
Soggetto geografico: Jamaica Emigration and immigration
Soggetto non controllato: 1960s
1970s
1980s
Bahamian workers
Caribbean guestworker programs
Caribbean guestworkers
Cuban Revolution
Emergency Farm Labor Importation Program
Florida Rural Legal Services
Florida
Great Depression
H2 program
IRCA
Immigration Reform and Control Act
Jamaican guestworkers
Jim Crow
Leaford Williams
Luther L. Chandler
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mexican guestworker programs
New Deal
U.S. South
U.S. farmworker programme
U.S. guestworker programs
UFW
United Farm Workers of America
War on Poverty
World War II
agricultural exceptionalism
agriculture
anti-immigrant sentiments
authorized guestworker programs
cane cutters
deportation
domestic workers
farm employers
farm labor
female guestworkers
foreign labor
foreign workers
guestworker advocacy
guestworker program
guestworker programs
guestworkers
illegal immigration
immigrant workers
immigrants
immigration reform legislation
immigration restrictions
immigration
international migrants
international migration
labor discipline
labor laws
labor migrants
labor migration
labor recruitment scheme
labor recruitment
labor scarcity
labor standards
labor supply schemes
labor supply systems
managed migration
mass strikes
migration
nationalism
no man's land
poor working conditions
postwar America
rebellion
reform programs
state involvement
sugarcane company
temporary immigration schemes
unregulated migration
war workers
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Guestworkers of the World, Unite! -- CHAPTER TWO. Everything But a Gun to Their Heads -- CHAPTER THREE. "Stir It Up" -- CHAPTER FOUR. John Bull Meets Jim Crow -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Race to the Bottom -- CHAPTER SIX. A Riotous Success -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Worst Job in the World -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Takin' It to the Courts -- CHAPTER NINE. "For All Those Bending Years" -- CHAPTER TEN. All the World's a Workplace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Sommario/riassunto: 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. Based on a vast array of sources from U.S., Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, No Man's Land tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world's second oldest guestworker program. Since World War II, the H2 program has brought hundreds of thousands of mostly Jamaican men to the United States to do some of the nation's dirtiest and most dangerous farmwork for some of its biggest and most powerful agricultural corporations, companies that had the power to import and deport workers from abroad. Jamaican guestworkers occupied a no man's land between nations, protected neither by their home government nor by the United States. The workers complained, went on strike, and sued their employers in class action lawsuits, but their protests had little impact because they could be repatriated and replaced in a matter of hours. No Man's Land puts Jamaican guestworkers' experiences in the context of the global history of this fast-growing and perilous form of labor migration.
Titolo autorizzato: No man's land  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-16384-5
9786613163844
1-4008-4002-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819389703321
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Serie: Politics and society in twentieth-century America.