The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a
transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the
Americas collects the newest work of leading Canadianist,
Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists, as well as U.S.
historians. As distinct from comparative histories built around the
integrity of their nation-state subjects, these essays highlight
both the supra- or sub-national aspect of selected topics without
ignoring the power of nation-states themselves as historical
forces. Indeed, the transnational focus opens new avenues for
understanding changes in the concepts, policies and practice of
states, their interactions with each other and their populations,
and the ways in which the popular classes resist, react, and use
both nation-state and non-state entities to advance their
interests. What does this transnational turn encompass? And what
are its likely perils as well as promise as a framework for
research and analysis? To address these questions six eminent
scholars (John French, Julie Greene, Neville Kirk, Aviva Chomsky,
Dirk Hoerder, and Vic Satzewich) lead off the volume with their own
critical commentaries on the very project of transnational labor
history. Their responses effectively offer a tour of explanations,
tensions, and cautions in the evolution of a new arena of research
and writing. Thereafter, Workers Across the Americas groups fifteen
research essays around themes of Labor and Empire, Indigenous
Peoples and Labor Systems, International Feminism and Reproductive
Labor, Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control, Transnational
Labor Politics, and Labor Internationalism. Topics range from
military labor in the British Empire to coffee workers on the
Guatemalan/Mexican border to the Atlantic white slavery traffic to
the role of the International Labor Organization in attempting to
set common labor standards. Leading scholars-including Camille
Guerin-Gonzalez, Alex Lichtenstein, Nelson Lichtenstein, Colleen
O'Neill, Premilla Nadasen, and Bryan Palmer-introduce each section
and also make recommendations for further reading.
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