Cindy Hahamovitch: 2 books
The Fruits of Their Labor
Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well...
No Man's Land
Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers...