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2022., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 338.1 D926h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Rethinking Canada in the world Volume: 12.Summary Note: 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 Harvesting Labour, Edward Dunsworth examines the history of farm work in one of Canada's underrecognized but most important crop sectors--Ontario tobacco. Dunsworth takes aim at the idea that temporary foreign worker programs emerged in response to labour shortages or the unwillingness of Canadians to work in agriculture. To the contrary, Ontario's tobacco sector was extremely popular with workers for much of the twentieth century, with high wages attracting a diverse workforce and enabling thousands to establish themselves as small farm owners. By the end of the century, however, the sector had become something entirely different: a handful of mega-farms relying on foreign guest workers to produce their crops. Taking readers from the leafy fields of Ontario's tobacco belt to rural Jamaica, Barbados, and North Carolina and on to the halls of government, Dunsworth demonstrates how the ultimate transformation of tobacco--and Canadian agriculture writ large--was fundamentally a function of the capitalist restructuring of farming.
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2007., Published for the Macdonald-Stewart Foundation by McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: SC Bio M1354f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2002], c2001., Grove Press Call No: 394.1 G258t Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
