Jamaican Labor Migration: White Capital And Black Labor, 1850-1930 0429712995, 9780429712999

Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean 0812234677, 9780812234671

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of pa

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Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony 9780804786805

Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship bet

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Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo 9780804778169

Working alongside migrant Filipina hostesses in Japan, Parreñas investigates the impact of being labeled as trafficked v

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Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai 9780804777506

Gridlock explores how migrant workers' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions—and global

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The Black Worker: The Negro and the Labor Movement 9780231892230

Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black mi

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No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor 9780691160153

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Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century 9780300129960

Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to

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Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor 9781501723568

Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an em

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White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa 9780520909120

Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year

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Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor 9780804765336

Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions su

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