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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy

Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy

Binford, Leigh

Paperback

LaborImmigration & RefugeesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0292756887
ISBN13: 9780292756885
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 299
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally, receive health benefits, contribute to pensions, are represented by Canadian consular officials, and rate the program favorably. Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest takes us behind the ideology and examines the daily lives of SAWP workers from Tlaxcala, Mexico (one of the leading sending states), observing the great personal and family price paid in order to experience a temporary rise in a standard of living. The book also observes the disparities of a gutted Mexican countryside versus the flourishing agriculture in Canada, where farm labor demand remains high.

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