Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-300) and index.
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.
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