Workers across the Americas : the transnational turn in labor history

Preface Leon Fink I. Beyond Borders: The Challenge of Transnational Labor History Introduction: Another 'World' History Is Possible: Latin Americanist Reflections on Translocal, Transnational, and Global History John French Chapter 1: Historians of the Transnational Forces, Nation-States, and the Practice of U.S. History Julie Greene Chapter 2: Transnational Labor History: Promise and Perils Neville Kirk Chapter 3: Labor History as World History: Linking Regions over Time Aviva Chomsky Chapter 4: Overlapping Spaces: Transregional and Transcultural Dirk Hoerder Chapter 5: Transnational Migration: A New Historical Phenomenon? Vic Satzewichders: The Challenge of Transnational Labor II. Labor and Empire Introduction: Another 'World' History Is Possible: Latin Alex Lichtensteinctions on Translocal, Transnational, and Chapter 6: Black service ... white money: The Peculiar Institution of Military Labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War Peter Waych Chapter 7: We Speak the Same Language in the New World: Capital, Class, and Community in Mexico's Century Steven Bachelorand the Practice of U.S. History III. Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems Introductionransnational Labor History: Promise and Perils Colleen O'Neill Chapter 8: Indigenous Labor in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British North America: The Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in Comparative Perspective Andrew Parnaby Chapter 9: De Facto Mexicans: Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border, 1931-1941 Catherine Nolan-Ferrell paces: Transregional and IV. International Feminism and Reproductive Labor Introduction Premilla Nadasennational Migration: A New Historical Chapter 10: No Right to Layettes or Nursing Time: Maternity Leave and the Question of United States Exceptionalism Eileen Boris Chapter 11: The Battle Within the Home: International Women's Year 1975 and the Debate Over Development Feminism, and the Commodification of Caring Labors Jocelyn Olcott V. Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control IntroductionBlack service ... white money: The Peculiar Camille Guerin-Gonzales Labor in the British Army during the Chapter 12: Feminizing White Slavery in the United States: Marcus Braun and the Transnational Traffic in White Bodies, 1890-1910 Gunther Peck Chapter 13: Patronage and Progress: The Bracero Program from the Perspective of Mexico Michael Snodgrassnd Community in Mexico's Century Chapter 14: Unspoken Exclusions: Race, Nation, and Empire in the Immigration Restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the Greater Caribbean Lara Putnamnous Peoples and Labor Systems VI. Transnational Labor Politics Introductionill Bryan D. Palmergenous Labor in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chapter 15: Reclaiming Political Space: Workers, Municipal Socialism and the Reconstruction of Local Democracy in Transnational Perspective Shelton Stromquisth Columbia in Comparative Perspective Chapter 16: A Migrating Revolution: Mexican Political Organizers and their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-40 John H. Flores Facto Mexicans: Coffee Workers and VII. Labor Internationalism n/Mexican Border, 1931-1941 Introductionlan-Ferrell Nelson Lichtensteineminism and Reproductive Labor Chapter 17: Fugitive Slaves Across North America Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Chapter 18: Movable Type: Toronto's Transnational Printers, 1866-1872 Jacob Remes ave and the Question of United States Chapter 19: Global Sea or National Backwater? The ILO, Protective Subsidies, and the Shoals of Solidarity Leon Finkris ContributorsThe Battle Within the Home: International Index