| #1149057 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 2000-05-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.71 x5.98l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 332 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book overall|By skier872|I highly recommend this book. It does an excellent job of analyzing the relationship between Padrones and immigrants in the early 1900s.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Manhood recast|By A Customer|A must-read for anyone interested in immigration history, the history of labo||"Selecting three dramatically different case studies of padrone-immigrant worker relationships--encompassing Italians in Canada, Greeks in Utah, and Mexicans on both sides of the Rio Grande--Peck manages at once to convey the specificity of each of these three
One of the most infamous villains in North America during the Progressive Era was the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots and kept them uncivilized, unmanly, and unfree. In this first-ever history of the padrone, Gunther Peck argues that they were not primitive men but rather thoroughly modern entrepreneurs who used corporations, the labor contract, and the right to quit to create far-flung coercive networks. Drawing on Greek, Spa...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 | Gunther Peck. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
