Sweet tyranny
Subtitle: migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperial politics
By: Kathleen Mapes.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252034367
Subjects: 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 -- Economic aspects -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century; Middle West -- Rural conditions; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rural industrialization and imperial politics; title: Contract farming in rural Michigan; title: Family farms, child labor, and migrant families; title: Farmers and the Great War; title: Immigrant labor and the guest worker program; title: Mexican immigrants and immigration debate; title: Child labor reformers and industrial agriculture; title: Remaking imperialism and the industrial countryside; title: The politics of migrant labor.