Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics
In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, industrialists,...
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Amid America's sugar industry, a bitter debate over imperialism and immigration.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 Rural Industrialization and Imperial Politics 132 Contract Farming in Rural Michigan 393 Family Farms, Child Labor, and Migrant Families 654 Farmers and the Great War 965 Immigrant Labor and the Guest Worker Program 1226 Mexican Immigrants and Immigration Debate 1437 Child Labor Reformers and Industrial Agriculture 1668 Remaking Imperialism and the Industrial Countryside 1869 The Politics of Migrant Labor 215Epilogue 241Notes 247Index 301Illustrations follow page 64
