Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
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This study is of the history of the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots.
List of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The World Padrones Made: 1. Free land and unfree labor; 2. Padrones and corporations; 3. Defenders of contract; Part II. Reinventing Free Labor: 4. Manhood mobilized; 5. Mobilizing community; 6. Spaces of freedom; Epilogue: the vanishing padrone; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
