Workers across the Americas
Subtitle: the transnational turn in labor history
By: edited by Leon Fink
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780199731633; 9780199778553
Subjects: Transnationalism; Labor; History
Notes: "Associate editors, Eileen Boris, John D. French, Julie Greene, Joan Sangster, Shelton Stromquist."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Another World history is possible : reflections on the translocal, transnational, and global / John D. French; title: Historians of the world : transnational forces, nation-states, and the practice of U.S. history / Julie Greene; title: Transnational labor history : promise and perils / Neville Kirk; title: Labor history as world history : linking regions over time / Aviva Chomsky; title: Overlapping spaces : transregional and transcultural / Dirk Hoerder; title: Transnational migration : a new historical phenomenon? / Vic Satzewich; title: "black service...white money" : the peculiar institution of military labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War / Peter Way; title: "We speak the same language in the new world: : capital, class, and community in Mexico's "American century" / Steven J. Bachelor; title: Indigenous labor in mid-nineteenth-century British North America : the Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in comparative perspective / Andrew Parnaby; title: "De facto Mexicans" : coffee workers and nationality on the Guatemalan-Mexican border, 1913-1941 / Catherine Nolan-Ferrell; title: "No right to layettes or nursing time" : maternity leave and the question of U.S. exceptionalism / Eileen Boris; title: The battle within the home : development strategies and the commodification of caring labors at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference / Jocelyn Olcott; title: Feminizing white slavery in the United States : Marcus Braun and the transnational traffic in white bodies, 1890-1910 / Gunther Peck; title: Patronage and progress : the Bracero program from the perspective of Mexico / Michael Snodgrass; title: Unspoken exclusions : race, nation, and empire in the immigration restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the greater Caribbean / Lara Putnam; title: Claiming political space : workers, municipal socialism, and the reconstruction of local democracy in transnational perspective / Shelton Stromquist; title: A migrating revolution : Mexican political organizers and their rejection of American assimilation, 1920-1940 / John H. Flores; title: Fugitive slaves across North America / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie; title: Movable type : Toronto's transnational printers, 1866-1872 / Jacob Remes; title: Global sea or national backwater? The International Labor Organization and the quixotic quest for maritime standards, 1919-1945 / Leon Fink.