3 Why, we only Live to Serve!: A Brief History of Guestworker Programs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Contents IX
5. 1 An Introduction 1
6. 2 Tourism Work, Seasonality, and Labor Migration in the United States 25
7. 3 Why, we only Live to Serve!: A Brief History of Guestworker Programs 42
8. 4 Pushing the Boulder up the Hill 65
9. 5 Islands in the Stream 88
10. 6 Put our Service to the Test: Employing Guestworkers 114
11. 7 Precarious Work – It Takes a Village 137
12. 8 Politics and Immigration Reform 161
13. 9 Conclusion 191
14. Bibliography 209
15. List of Abbreviations 227
16. List of Figures 229
17. Index 231