Reinventing free labor : padrones and immigrant workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 / Gunther Peck.
Peck, Gunther.
2000
HD4875.N7 P43 2000 (Mapit)
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Title Reinventing free labor : padrones and immigrant workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 / Gunther Peck.
Author Peck, Gunther.
ISBN 0521641608
0521778190 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Language English
Description xiii, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number HD4875.N7 P43 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.6/2/0978
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-278) and index.
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Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: The World Padrones Made
I Free Land and Unfree Labor
New World Fictions
The King of the Laborers
The Czar of the Greeks
El Enganchado
Entrepreneurs of Space
2 Padrones and Corporations
Corporate Antecedents
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company
The Utah Copper Company
El Paso's Octupi
Conclusion
3 Defenders of Contract
Contracts and Coercion
Padrones and Contract Labor Law
Apostles of Liberty of Contract
Conclusion
PART TWO: Reinventing Free Labor
4 Manhood Mobilized
Family Ties at Home
Manhood on the Move
Mobilizing Manhood
Conclusion
5 Mobilizing Community
Transient Communities
Persistent Communities
Citizens All!
Royal Dreams
Racial Pedigrees
Conclusion
6 Spaces of Freedom
Fleeing the Padrone
Suing the Padrone
American Unions/ Immigrant Mobilizations
The Paths to Whiteness
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Vanishing Padrone
Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Tables Used in Preparation of Maps
Bibliography
Index.

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