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American Guestworkers : Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market / David Griffith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rural StudiesPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 4 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780271032856
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  • 331.6/272073 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Out of Florida -- Introduction: In the State with the Prettiest Name -- 1 Alleged Shortages at Home, Certain Surpluses Abroad: North American Temporary Worker Programs -- 2 Occupations Abandoned,Workers Displaced: Seasonal Labor Before and After H-2 -- Part II: Jamaican Experiences, 1981-2001 -- 3 From Beauty to Truth -- 4 Aspects of the Machete -- 5 Guests as Hosts: Jamaicans in the Tourist Industry -- Part III: Mexican Experiences, 1988-2003 -- 6 When Owls Die, Ellos Nos Hierieron -- 7 Bodies on Hold: Gender and H-2 -- Conclusion: Lasting Firsts -- References -- Index
Summary: The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Out of Florida -- Introduction: In the State with the Prettiest Name -- 1 Alleged Shortages at Home, Certain Surpluses Abroad: North American Temporary Worker Programs -- 2 Occupations Abandoned,Workers Displaced: Seasonal Labor Before and After H-2 -- Part II: Jamaican Experiences, 1981-2001 -- 3 From Beauty to Truth -- 4 Aspects of the Machete -- 5 Guests as Hosts: Jamaicans in the Tourist Industry -- Part III: Mexican Experiences, 1988-2003 -- 6 When Owls Die, Ellos Nos Hierieron -- 7 Bodies on Hold: Gender and H-2 -- Conclusion: Lasting Firsts -- References -- Index

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The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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