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Title Workers across the Americas : the transnational turn in labor history / edited by Leon Fink
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 466 pages)
Contents Another World history is possible : reflections on the translocal, transnational, and global / John D. French -- Historians of the world : transnational forces, nation-states, and the practice of U.S. history / Julie Greene -- Transnational labor history : promise and perils / Neville Kirk -- Labor history as world history : linking regions over time / Aviva Chomsky -- Overlapping spaces : transregional and transcultural / Dirk Hoerder -- Transnational migration : a new historical phenomenon? / Vic Satzewich -- "black service ... white money" : the peculiar institution of military labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War / Peter Way -- "We speak the same language in the new world: : capital, class, and community in Mexico's "American century" / Steven J. Bachelor -- Indigenous labor in mid-nineteenth-century British North America : the Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in comparative perspective / Andrew Parnaby -- "De facto Mexicans" : coffee workers and nationality on the Guatemalan-Mexican border, 1913-1941 / Catherine Nolan-Ferrell -- "No right to layettes or nursing time" : maternity leave and the question of U.S. exceptionalism / Eileen Boris -- The battle within the home : development strategies and the commodification of caring labors at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference / Jocelyn Olcott -- Feminizing white slavery in the United States : Marcus Braun and the transnational traffic in white bodies, 1890-1910 / Gunther Peck -- Patronage and progress : the Bracero program from the perspective of Mexico / Michael Snodgrass -- Unspoken exclusions : race, nation, and empire in the immigration restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the greater Caribbean / Lara Putnam -- Claiming political space : workers, municipal socialism, and the reconstruction of local democracy in transnational perspective / Shelton Stromquist -- A migrating revolution : Mexican political organizers and their rejection of American assimilation, 1920-1940 / John H. Flores -- Fugitive slaves across North America / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie -- Movable type : Toronto's transnational printers, 1866-1872 / Jacob Remes -- Global sea or national backwater? The International Labor Organization and the quixotic quest for maritime standards, 1919-1945 / Leon Fink
Summary Placing U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas explores themes of labor and empire, indigenous peoples and labor systems, international feminism and reproductive labor, labor recruitment and immigration control, transnational labor politics, and labor internationalism
Notes "Associate editors, Eileen Boris, John D. French, Julie Greene, Joan Sangster, Shelton Stromquist."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Labor -- America -- History
Transnationalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor
Transnationalism
America
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fink, Leon, 1948-
ISBN 9780199830329
0199830320