American guestworkers : Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. labor market / David Griffith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, David, 1951-

Series:

Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)

Rural studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--United States--History.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Foreign workers, Jamaican--United States--History.

Foreign workers, Jamaican.

Mexican Americans--Employment--History.

Mexican Americans.

Jamaican Americans--Employment--History.

Jamaican Americans.

Temporary employment--United States--History.

Temporary employment.

History.

Mexican Americans--Employment.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 234 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2006]

Summary:

The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longestrunning labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

Contents:

Alleged shortages at home, certain surpluses abroad : North American temporary worker programs

Occupations abandoned, workers displaced : seasonal labor before and after H-2

From beauty to truth

Aspects of the machete

Guests as hosts : Jamaicans in the tourist industry

When owls die, ellos nos hierieron

Bodies on hold : gender and H-2.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-230) and index.

ISBN:

0271029498

OCLC:

70045820