Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics

(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)

by Kathleen Mapes

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In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252076672

ISBN13:9780252076671

Release Date:May 2009

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Business Business & Investing History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics

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