Harvesting labour : tobacco and the global making of Canada's agricultural workforce / Edward Dunsworth.

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"In recent decades an increasing share of Canada's agricultural workforce has been made up of temporary foreign workers from the Global South. These labourers work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections and are effectively barred from permanent settlement in Canada. In Harvestin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dunsworth, Edward (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Series:	Rethinking Canada in the world ; 12.
Subjects:	Tobacco workers > Ontario > History > 20th century. Agricultural laborers, Foreign > Ontario > History > 20th century. Tobacco farms > Ontario > History > 20th century. Agricultural laborers > Canada > History > 20th century. Labor supply > Canada > History > 20th century. Travailleurs du tabac > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siècle. Travailleurs agricoles étrangers > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siècle. Plantations de tabac > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siècle. Travailleurs agricoles > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siècle. Marché du travail > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle. Agricultural laborers. Agricultural laborers, Foreign. Labor supply. Tobacco farms. Tobacco workers. Canada. Ontario. 1900-1999 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xvi, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Variant Title:	Harvesting labor
Format:	Book

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