Making the Empire Work

Description

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.

Sujets

• Droit et juridique
• Industrial relations

Informations

• Publié par: NYU Press
• Date de parution: 17 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781479893225
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Making the Empire Work

Culture, L ab or, History Series ééà Éô ŝ: àé É. éé à éé . ŝ

The Forests Gave Way before Them: The Impact of African Workers on the Anglo-American World, 1650–1850 ééç Ç.  Unknown Class: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present à éé Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940 çàé . ïŝ-é Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country Āé . Āô A Great Conspiracy against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century éé . éô

Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph Éé  Āé É. éŝé à Çàéçé à

The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses Éé  àé éé à àà . à

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era Śàô 

Health in the City: Race, Poverty and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930 àà à

Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism Éé  àé É. éé à àà . à

à é Éé ô

Labor and United States Imperialism

Éé  àé É. éé à àà . à

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Acknowledgments  ïôûçô: ôû é ôô àŝŝ: Û.Ś. Éé ôû é éŝ ô àô ŝô Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman Part . Solidarities and Resistance 1. é àéŝ ô Éé: Çààŝ, Éàŝôŝ, à ô-Çàŝŝ ôàô Julie Greene 2. éôûôà Çûéŝ: ïéàçà Śôàéŝ, ïéà àà, à é Û.Ś. Éé Moon-Ho Jung 3. é Śéçé Śôéŝ’ Ûô: àô à Śôé ôçŝ  é é Śçôû û ô 1924 Christopher Capozzola 4. é ôôŝ à é ô’ é ô Śéé: Śôéééŝ, Āçéŝ, à é 1928 àŝŝàçé ô ààà ôéŝ  Çôôà Kevin Coleman Part . ntimacies in Colonial Spaces 5. Śéûà àô à é Û.Ś. à Éé: Çôààé Āàŝŝ ô Éûôé à Éàŝ Āŝà Seungsook Moon 6. à Āôà: é à é Çûûà àô ô ôŝà Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

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Part . Migration and Mobilizing L ab or for the Empire 7. é Āààéŝ ô Éé: Çéŝé Śéàŝ à Çôçŝ ôé Śéé ôéŝç  é “é àçç,” 1870–1900 185 Andrew T. Urban 8. Éé à é ô ô: é ôéà, à Çàôà, à ûà Śàçé 208 Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony 9. Śàé’ŝ Śàé Śô: ïéûé àô, ûéŝôéŝ, à é É ô Éé 227 Cindy Hahamovitch Part V. mperial L ab or and Control in the Tropics 10. é Çôôàô ô Āŝàé à é Āéçààô ô Ééŝ: é àô ô Āûôô à é àô ô Śûôàô  ôô à é Ûé Śàéŝ 267 Andrew Zimmerman 11. ôéŝŝé Éé: àçé à ôçà  Ûé û’ŝ Çéà Āéçà 289 Jason M. Colby 12. à ïŝ ïéà àôû Çôéé é “ïôà Éé” 312 Augustine Sedgewick 13. ôé à (ï)ŝéçû: é àô ô Û.Ś. Çô à à Éé  é àŝà ïŝàŝ 335 Lauren Hirshberg About the Contributors357 Index361

Acknowled gments

ŝ çôéçô ŝ à çôàôàô ô ŝçôàŝ àçôŝŝ éŝ à éé ŝç- éŝ. é àé àéû, àôé à, ô ôû àûôŝ ô é éçéé  éà éàç ôéŝ’ ô é é àéé  ôôô  àé ŝûé 2012 ô é ôŝô à ééûà ôûçé ŝ ôô.  é’ŝ ŝû à éé àé à ôŝô à ŝûççéŝŝ. é çôûé àŝ é ô é à é à é ôé,  éû, à ôû éŝŝàŝ àé ààçé ŝ ô ŝçôàŝ. é à àà Çéŝééŝ, à Éŝà, ô ôûé, àû àé, à éé ŝ, ô àé ô ôû çôéŝàôŝ à éé ŝàéŝ  é ôéç. ŝ çôéçô ééé ô é àçà ŝûô ô é Çààà éŝéàç Çà ôà, ç ûéôé ôû ôŝô. é àé àéû, àŝ é, ô ûàé Ûéŝ à é Ûéŝ ô ôôô Śçàôôû ô é àŝàé ŝûô.

Daniel E. Bender, Toronto, July 2014

Jana K. Lipman, New Orleans, July 2014

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Through the Looking Glass: U.S. Empire through the Lens of Labor History

Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman

ï ôé éé ô ô û à ô ô é Û.Ś. éé, à ôû ôé ŝéé ŝôàŝ àé ôçûŝé ô çà àéŝ, ûŝ ûéàûçàŝ, éé-  ôçà ééŝ, à à-éé ŝéçŝ à ôé. ô é ŝûé, é éé à ŝ é àéŝ à ôéé à à àŝûçûé. ŝôàŝ àé ôé çé é à ô 1898, é ûéàûçàç ôààô ô é Û.Ś. éàé ô ïŝûà Āàŝ, é ôŝô ô çôôà ôé- ôŝ  ûéô çô à é éŝ, à é éçôôçà ŝéçàçé ô Û.Ś. à àŝéŝ. é àôŝé éŝé ôé ôçà àéŝ, ôé ôû ŝéé é ûéŝ ô ôûŝàŝ ô é à ôé ô ôé ô, çéàé, à à éŝ, çàéé é Û.Ś. éé. ôô çôŝé à é é ôŝ ô éé, éé éé ôŝ ôé ô û ôàŝ à àŝéŝ, éàç àûà éŝôûçéŝ, ôé çàé à çôô, à àà ôé. Éé àŝ à àô ŝô, à  ŝ ûŝ é ô é é. ô àà‘ ô ààà, é à àôŝ ô éé à éç çô- ŝéqûéçéŝ ô ô éôé. ŝôàŝ àé éçôé é çôàŝŝ ééé é éôôà à ôé, é ààà ààô à- ôé, à é ôéŝç ûéŝ ôé. Ā éé ôé  ôŝ ô ôôŝ à çôôéŝ, é ŝ ŝéààé  ôôŝ ô éàé ŝàçé. é ŝôéŝ àŝé qûéŝôŝ àôû é éàôŝŝ ééé ôé à éôé, ŝôà à ŝŝé, ŝàçé à ô, à ôûçô à çôŝûô. ï ŝ ôûé, é àé ôû é ôô àŝŝ à é ô éôé à àô ŝŝéŝ à àé é Û.Ś. éé. ô Û.Ś. ŝôàŝ, à éàŝŝ ô éé à àô ôçéŝ à éàéé  à ôà

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