ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ABBREVIATIONS ix
4. INTRODUCTION Freedom Struggles and the Labor Contract 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Free or Slave?: A Genealogy of Labor Contract Coercion and Freedom 19
6. CHAPTER 2 Good Neighbors?: Contract Labor and the Limits of Freedom During the New Deal 52
7. CHAPTER 3 Japanese Braceros: The Co-Constitution of the Bracero Program and Japanese American Incarceration 83
8. CHAPTER 4 From Civil Rights to Immigration Restriction: The Search for U.S. Labor Rights in the 1950s 120
9. CHAPTER 5 Boricua Braceros: The New Deal and the U.S.-Puerto Rican Farm Labor Program 153
10. CHAPTER 6 Empire and Nation: Caribbean Independence and the Labor Programs in the British West Indies 188
11. EPILOGUE Civil Rights for Whom?: U.S. Civil Rights and the Labor Importation Programs 217
12. NOTES 227
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES 271
14. INDEX 277
15. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 283