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Author Mapes, Kathleen, 1967-

Title Sweet tyranny : migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics / Kathleen Mapes
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource
Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject 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
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign
Agriculture and politics
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Child migrant agricultural laborers
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Imperialism
Industrialization
Migrant agricultural laborers
Rural conditions
Rural industries
SUBJECT Middle West -- Rural conditions
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
Subject Middle West
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019717341
ISBN 9780252091803
0252091809
1283583011
9781283583015
9786613895462
6613895466