TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hahamovitch,Cindy
TI  - No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor 
T2  - Politics and Society in Modern America
SN  - 9780691102689
AV  - HD8081.A5 H34 2017
U1  - 331.627292073 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Foreign workers
KW  - United States
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1960s
KW  - 1970s
KW  - 1980s
KW  - Bahamian workers
KW  - Caribbean guestworker programs
KW  - Caribbean guestworkers
KW  - Cuban Revolution
KW  - Emergency Farm Labor Importation Program
KW  - Florida Rural Legal Services
KW  - Florida
KW  - Great Depression
KW  - H2 program
KW  - IRCA
KW  - Immigration Reform and Control Act
KW  - Jamaican guestworkers
KW  - Jim Crow
KW  - Leaford Williams
KW  - Luther L. Chandler
KW  - Lyndon B. Johnson
KW  - Mexican guestworker programs
KW  - New Deal
KW  - U.S. South
KW  - U.S. farmworker programme
KW  - U.S. guestworker programs
KW  - UFW
KW  - United Farm Workers of America
KW  - War on Poverty
KW  - World War II
KW  - agricultural exceptionalism
KW  - agriculture
KW  - alien farmworkers
KW  - alien negro laborers
KW  - anti-immigrant sentiments
KW  - authorized guestworker programs
KW  - cane cutters
KW  - deportation
KW  - domestic workers
KW  - farm employers
KW  - farm labor
KW  - female guestworkers
KW  - foreign labor
KW  - foreign workers
KW  - guestworker advocacy
KW  - guestworker program
KW  - guestworker programs
KW  - guestworkers
KW  - illegal immigration
KW  - immigrant workers
KW  - immigrants
KW  - immigration reform legislation
KW  - immigration restrictions
KW  - immigration
KW  - international migrants
KW  - international migration
KW  - labor discipline
KW  - labor laws
KW  - labor migrants
KW  - labor migration
KW  - labor recruitment scheme
KW  - labor recruitment
KW  - labor scarcity
KW  - labor standards
KW  - labor supply schemes
KW  - labor supply systems
KW  - managed migration
KW  - mass strikes
KW  - migration
KW  - nationalism
KW  - no man's land
KW  - poor working conditions
KW  - postwar America
KW  - rebellion
KW  - reform programs
KW  - state involvement
KW  - sugarcane company
KW  - temporary immigration schemes
KW  - unregulated migration
KW  - war workers
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. Guestworkers of the World, Unite! --; CHAPTER TWO. Everything But a Gun to Their Heads --; CHAPTER THREE. "Stir It Up" --; CHAPTER FOUR. John Bull Meets Jim Crow --; CHAPTER FIVE. The Race to the Bottom --; CHAPTER SIX. A Riotous Success --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Worst Job in the World --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Takin' It to the Courts --; CHAPTER NINE. "For All Those Bending Years" --; CHAPTER TEN. All the World's a Workplace --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and they had few rights. Indeed, instead of creating a manageable form of migration, guestworker programs created an especially vulnerable class of labor. Based on a vast array of sources from U.S., Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, No Man's Land tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world's second oldest guestworker program. Since World War II, the H2 program has brought hundreds of thousands of mostly Jamaican men to the United States to do some of the nation's dirtiest and most dangerous farmwork for some of its biggest and most powerful agricultural corporations, companies that had the power to import and deport workers from abroad. Jamaican guestworkers occupied a no man's land between nations, protected neither by their home government nor by the United States. The workers complained, went on strike, and sued their employers in class action lawsuits, but their protests had little impact because they could be repatriated and replaced in a matter of hours. No Man's Land puts Jamaican guestworkers' experiences in the context of the global history of this fast-growing and perilous form of labor migration
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840021?locatt=mode:legacy
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