MARC Record from Library of Congress

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082 00 $a331.6/2/0978$221
100 1 $aPeck, Gunther.
245 10 $aReinventing free labor :$bpadrones and immigrant workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 /$cGunther Peck.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2000.
300 $axiii, 293 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 248-278) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: PART ONE: The World Padrones Made -- I Free Land and Unfree Labor -- New World Fictions -- The King of the Laborers -- The Czar of the Greeks -- El Enganchado -- Entrepreneurs of Space -- 2 Padrones and Corporations -- Corporate Antecedents -- The Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- The Utah Copper Company -- El Paso's Octupi -- Conclusion -- 3 Defenders of Contract -- Contracts and Coercion -- Padrones and Contract Labor Law -- Apostles of Liberty of Contract -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: Reinventing Free Labor -- 4 Manhood Mobilized -- Family Ties at Home -- Manhood on the Move -- Mobilizing Manhood -- Conclusion -- 5 Mobilizing Community -- Transient Communities -- Persistent Communities -- Citizens All! -- Royal Dreams -- Racial Pedigrees -- Conclusion -- 6 Spaces of Freedom -- Fleeing the Padrone -- Suing the Padrone -- American Unions/ Immigrant Mobilizations -- The Paths to Whiteness -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Vanishing Padrone -- Appendix A: Tables -- Appendix B: Tables Used in Preparation of Maps -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aPadrone system$zNorth America$xHistory.
651 0 $aNorth America$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory.
650 0 $aRight to labor$zNorth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aForeign workers, Greek$zNorth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aForeign workers, Italian$zNorth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aForeign workers, Mexican$zNorth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aGreek Americans$xEmployment$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aMiners$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aItalian Americans$xEmployment$xHistory.
650 0 $aMexican Americans$xEmployment$xHistory.
650 0 $aRailroad construction workers$zNorth America$xHistory.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam0210/99026123.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam025/99026123.html