From Fields of Power to Fields of Sweat: the dual process of constructing temporary migrant labour in Mexico and Canada.
This article examines the social construction of migrant labour forces through an analysis of the exterior and interior conditioning in an agricultural contract labour programme between Mexico and Canada. I argue that forms of exterior conditioning, especially employers' point-of-production control,...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 503 - 518 |
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Apr2009
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