| #2648653 in Books | 2009-05-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By DKH|Daughter was very pleased to get this. Book was in great condition.||"A compelling account of the deeply interconnected worlds created by the emergence of a new cash crop."--American Historical "Mapes tells the understudied sugar beet industry's fascinating story, and links events in Michigan between 1899 and 1940 to the broa
In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics (Working Class in American History) | Kathleen Mapes. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
