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.