| Description |
1 online resource (530 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; The Fruits of Their Labor; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Epigraph; Introduction; 1: A Perfectly Irresistible Change; 2: The Sacrifice of Golden Boys and Girls; 3: Progressives as Padroni; 4: Work or Fight; 5: The Sunshine State Meets the Garden State; 6: Wards of the State; 7: Uncle Sam as Padrone; 8: The Union as Padrone; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers--Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean--who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. Th |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807899922 |
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0807899925 |
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