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Sweet tyranny : migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics / Kathleen Mapes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mapes, Kathleen, 1967-
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- The working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migrant agricultural laborers--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Migrant agricultural laborers.
- Child migrant agricultural laborers--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Child migrant agricultural laborers.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign.
- Rural industries--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Rural industries.
- Industrialization--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Industrialization.
- Agriculture and politics--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Agriculture and politics.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Middle West--History--20th century.
- Agriculture.
- Imperialism--History--20th century.
- Imperialism.
- Middle West--Rural conditions.
- Middle West.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, industrialists, Eastern European and Mexican immigrants, child laborers, rural reformers, Washington politicos, and colonial interests. Engagingly written, Sweet Tyranny demonstrates that capitalism was not solely a force from above but was influenced by the people below who defended their interests in an ever-expanding imperialist market.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613895462
- 9781283583015
- 1283583011
- 9780252091803
- 0252091809
- OCLC:
- 811410149
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