The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the Americas invites the leading authors in the field to explore themes of Labor and Empire, Indigenous Peoplesand Labor Systems, International Feminism and Reproductive Labor, Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control, Transnational Labor Politics, and Labor Internationalism. INDICE: Preface - Leon Fink; I. Beyond Borders: The Challenge of Transnational Labor History; Introduction: Another 'World' History Is Possible: Latin Americanist Reflections on Translocal, Transnational, and Global History - JohnFrench; Chapter 1: Historians of the World: Transnational Forces, Nation-States, and the Practice of U.S. History - Julie Greene; Chapter 2: Transnational Labor History: Promise and Perils - Neville Kirk; Chapter 3: Labor History as World History: Linking Regions over Time - Aviva Chomsky; Chapter 4: Overlapping Spaces: Transregional and Transcultural - Dirk Hoerder; Chapter 5: Transnational Migration: A New Historical Phenomenon? - Vic Satzewich; II. Labor and Empire; Introduction - Alex Lichtenstein; Chapter 6: 'Black service. white money': The Peculiar Institution of Military Labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War - Peter Way; Chapter 7: 'We Speak the Same Language in the New World': Capital, Class, and Community in Mexico's 'American Century' - Steven Bachelor; III. Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems; Introduction - Colleen O'Neill; Chapter 8: 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; Chapter 9: 'De Facto Mexicans': Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border, 1931-1941 - Catherine Nolan-Ferrell; IV. International Feminism and Reproductive Labor; Introduction -Premilla Nadasen; Chapter 10: 'No Right to Layettes or Nursing Time': Maternity Leave and the Question of United States Exceptionalism - Eileen Boris; Chapter 11: The Battle Within the Home: International Women's Year 1975 and the Debate Over Development Feminism, and the Commodification of Caring Labors - Jocelyn Olcott; V. Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control; Introduction - Camille Guérin-Gonzales; Chapter 12: Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910 - Gunther Peck; Chapter 13: Patronage and Progress: The Bracero Program from the Perspective of Mexico - Michael Snodgrass; Chapter 14: Unspoken Exclusions: Race,Nation, and Empire in the Immigration Restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the Greater Caribbean - Lara Putnam; VI. Transnational Labor Politics;Introduction - Bryan D. Palmer; Chapter 15: Reclaiming Political Space: Workers, Municipal Socialism and the Reconstruction of Local Democracy in Transnational Perspective - Shelton Stromquist; Chapter 16: A Migrating Revolution: Mexican Political Organizers and their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-40 - John H. Flores; VII. Labor Internationalism; Introduction - Nelson Lichtenstein; Chapter 17: Fugitive Slaves Across North America - Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie; Chapter 18: Movable Type: Toronto's Transnational Printers, 1866-1872 - Jacob Remes; Chapter 19: Global Sea or National Backwater? The ILO, Protective Subsidies, and the Shoals of Solidar
- ISBN: 978-0-19-973163-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés