Title Contracting freedom : race, empire, and U.S. guestworker programs / Maria L. Quintana

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 285 pages): illustrations (black and white) Series Politics and culture in modern America Politics and culture in modern America. Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION Freedom Struggles and the Labor Contract -- CHAPTER 1 Free or Slave?: A Genealogy of Labor Contract Coercion and Freedom -- CHAPTER 2 Good Neighbors?: Contract Labor and the Limits of Freedom During the New Deal -- CHAPTER 3 Japanese Braceros: The Co-Constitution of the Bracero Program and Japanese American Incarceration -- CHAPTER 4 From Civil Rights to Immigration Restriction: The Search for U.S. Labor Rights in the 1950s -- CHAPTER 5 Boricua Braceros: The New Deal and the U.S.-Puerto Rican Farm Labor Program -- CHAPTER 6 Empire and Nation: Caribbean Independence and the Labor Programs in the British West Indies -- EPILOGUE Civil Rights for Whom?: U.S. Civil Rights and the Labor Importation Programs -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Summary "This book represents the first scholarly attempt to examine the broad geographical dimensions of the World War II U.S. contract farm labor programs together and in sweeping detail. It views these labor programs relationally and in tandem to reveal how they were co-constituted and mutually understood across time and multiple places, producing a liberal consensus during this period that lives on today. By examining debates among government officials, labor leaders, civil rights activists, and agribusiness employers, it explores how the contractual consent and freedom of 1940s guestworker programs legitimated and extended U.S. racial and imperial domination abroad in the post-World War II period. More broadly, Contracting Freedom pursues the argument that liberalism, as a normative political idea and practice in the modern world, cannot be divorced from empire. In comparing the labor programs across geographic regions, it demonstrates that a global shift in the ideology of liberalism nurtured race and empire both before and after World War II, as numerous states sought to expand control over laborers through anti-imperial and race-neutral measures"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Seasonal Farm Laborers Program. SUBJECT Seasonal Farm Laborers Program fast Subject Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- United States -- History -- 20th century Foreign workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Contract labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century Race relations -- History -- 20th century Imperialism -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Agricultural laborers, Foreign Contract labor Foreign workers Imperialism Race relations United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812298499 0812298497

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