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Making the Empire Work - Labor and United States Imperialism (Hardcover)
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Making the Empire Work - Labor and United States Imperialism (Hardcover)
Series: Culture, Labor, History
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Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean,
performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global
economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers
harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and
filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center
of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new
stories of empire that intersect with the "grand narratives" of
diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels.
Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military
combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in
common-they all have labor histories. This collection challenges
historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted,
and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project
of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military
presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in
this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player
whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from
Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers
are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are
multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire's rhetoric
of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated
its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences
reveal the gulf between the American 'denial of empire' and the
lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military
exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the
center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
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