Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest : : Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy / / Leigh Binford.
From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Contract Labor Migration in Theory and Practice
- CHAPTER 1 Agricultural Crisis, Migration, and Contract Labor: Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada
- CHAPTER 2 The Dual Process of Constructing Mexican Contract Workers
- CHAPTER 3 “Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest”: Case Studies of Contract Labor Migration
- CHAPTER 4 Interrogating Racialized Global Labor Supply: Caribbean and Mexican Workers in Canada’s SAWP
- CHAPTER 5 The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Mexican Development
- CHAPTER 6 The Political Economy of Contract Labor in Neoliberal North America: Cheap Labor and Organized Labor
- CHAPTER 7 Globalization and Temporary Migrants: Post- National Citizens, Realpolitik, and Disposable Labor Power
- APPENDIX The SAWP: Saving the Family Farm or Feeding Corporate Enterprise?
- Notes
- References
- Index