Sweet Tyranny Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics |
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| Author:
| Mapes, Kathleen |
| Series title: | Working Class in American History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-07667-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......