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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781479822843
035 _a(DE-B1597)547870
035 _a(OCoLC)911246539
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHD8066
_b.M186 2016
072 7 _aPOL013000
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082 0 4 _a331.109171273
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aMaking the Empire Work :
_bLabor and United States Imperialism /
_ced. by Jana K. Lipman, Daniel E. Bender.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCulture, Labor, History ;
_v13
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aMillions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the "grand narratives" of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common-they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself.Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire's rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American 'denial of empire' and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aImperialism
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aLabor
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
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700 1 _aBender, Daniel E.
_ecuratore
700 1 _aLipman, Jana K.
_ecuratore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479822843
856 4 2 _3Cover
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