Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? by Gilbertg Gonzalez

Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? by Gilbertg Gonzalez

Scholars and journalists have looked to Mexico's economy and society for the chief causes of Mexican migration to the United States. This book presents a contrasting explanation, examining the history of relations between the two countries. Gilbert Gonzalez dispels the myth that Mexican migration conforms to the pattern of earlier European migrations. Mexican migration, he shows, is the social consequence of US economic domination of Mexico. Since the late nineteenth century, US capitalist enterprises have controlled important sectors of the Mexican economy, a dominance that uprooted small farmers from traditional villages. These uprooted families eventually proceeded to the United States to be integrated into the largest capitalist corporations in the world. This mass migration has had a number of consequences, from indentured labor to legal and illegal labor. Gonzalez's book examines recent Bush initiatives, NAFTA measures, and the history of antecedent bracero programs supported by US government and business to show how colonial explanations of migration better fit historical patterns.

"Highly Recommended"
--CHOICE

Gilbert G. Gonzalez is Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-editor most recently of Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration (2004).

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ISBN 13	9781594511516
ISBN 10	1594511519
Title	Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?
Author	Gilbert G Gonzalez
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Inc
Year published	2007-02-15
Number of pages	246
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