Making the Empire Work : : Labor and United States Imperialism /

Making the Empire Work : : Labor and United States Imperialism / / ed. by Jana K. Lipman, Daniel E. Bender.

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Millions 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...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bender, Daniel E.,
Capozzola, Christopher,
Colby, Jason M.,
Coleman, Kevin,
Fujita-Rony, Dorothy B.,
Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña,
Greene, Julie,
Hahamovitch, Cindy,
Hirshberg, Lauren,
Jung, Moon-Ho,
Lipman, Jana K.,
Moon, Seungsook,
Sedgewick, Augustine,
Urban, Andrew T.,
Zimmerman, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Bender, Daniel E.,
Lipman, Jana K.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Culture, Labor, History ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: U.S. Empire through the Lens of Labor History
  • Part I Solidarities and Resistance
  • 1 The Wages of Empire: Capitalism, Expansionism, and Working-Class Formation
  • 2 Revolutionary Currents: Interracial Solidarities, Imperial Japan, and the U.S. Empire
  • 3 The Secret Soldiers’ Union: Labor and Soldier Politics in the Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924
  • 4 The Photos That We Don’t Get to See: Sovereignties, Archives, and the 1928 Massacre of Banana Workers in Colombia
  • Part II Intimacies in Colonial Spaces
  • 5 Sexual Labor and the U.S. Military Empire: Comparative Analysis of Europe and East Asia
  • 6 Making Aloha: Lei and the Cultural Labor of Hospitality
  • Part III Migration and Mobilizing Labor for the Empire
  • 7 The Advantages of Empire: Chinese Servants and Conflicts over Settler Domesticity in the “White Pacific,” 1870–1900
  • 8 Empire and the Moving Body: Fermin Tobera, Military California, and Rural Space
  • 9 Slavery’s Stale Soil: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire
  • Part IV Imperial Labor and Control in the Tropics
  • 10 The Colonization of Antislavery and the Americanization of Empires: The Labor of Autonomy and the Labor of Subordination in Togo and the United States
  • 11 Progressive Empire: Race and Tropicality in United Fruit’s Central America
  • 12 What Is Imperial about Coffee? Rethinking “Informal Empire”
  • 13 Home Land (In)security: The Labor of U.S. Cold War Military Empire in the Marshall Islands
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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