Acronyms

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Figures, and Tables ix
4. Acronyms xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: Contract Labor Migration in Theory and Practice 1
7. CHAPTER 1 Agricultural Crisis, Migration, and Contract Labor: Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada 21
8. CHAPTER 2 The Dual Process of Constructing Mexican Contract Workers 44
9. CHAPTER 3 “Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest”: Case Studies of Contract Labor Migration 65
10. CHAPTER 4 Interrogating Racialized Global Labor Supply: Caribbean and Mexican Workers in Canada’s SAWP 93
11. CHAPTER 5 The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Mexican Development 116
12. CHAPTER 6 The Political Economy of Contract Labor in Neoliberal North America: Cheap Labor and Organized Labor 146
13. CHAPTER 7 Globalization and Temporary Migrants: Post- National Citizens, Realpolitik, and Disposable Labor Power 179
14. APPENDIX The SAWP: Saving the Family Farm or Feeding Corporate Enterprise? 195
15. Notes 201
16. References 237
17. Index 263