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Author:

Mapes, Kathleen, 1967-

Title:

Sweet tyranny : migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics / Kathleen Mapes.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Migrant agricultural laborers--Middle West--History--20th century.
Child migrant agricultural laborers--Middle West--History--20th century.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Middle West--History--20th century.
Rural industries--Middle West--History--20th century.
Industrialization--Middle West--History--20th century.
Agriculture and politics--Middle West--History--20th century.
Agriculture--History--Middle West--History--20th century.
Middle West--Rural conditions.
United States--History--Government policy--History--20th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The working class in American history

ISBN:

0252076672 (pbk.)
9780252076671 (pbk.)
0252034368 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252034367 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)246893190

LCCN:

2008041247

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)