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Harvesting labour : tobacco and the global making of Canada's agricultural workforce / Edward Dunsworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunsworth, Edward, author.
- Series:
- Rethinking Canada in the World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural laborers.
- Labor supply.
- Tobacco workers.
- Canada.
- Ontario.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queens University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- A growing share of Canada's agricultural workforce is composed of temporary foreign workers from the Global South who work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections, but it was not always like this. Dunsworth shows how the restructuring of capitalist agriculture transformed the Ontario tobacco sector and Canada's farm labour force.
- Contents:
- Cover
- HARVESTING LABOUR
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Table and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Green Gold Rush
- 2 Moving Up and Fighting Back
- 3 Controlling Migrants
- 4 Hippies, Frenchies, and Girls
- 5 Global Guest Workers
- 6 Boys Like These
- 7 Tobacco Transformed
- Conclusion: Covid, Climate, and the Future of Agri-Food Production
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dunsworth, Edward Harvesting Labour
- ISBN:
- 9780228012702
- 0228012708
- 9780228012696
- 0228012694
- OCLC:
- 1346359897
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