Reinventing Free Labor

Klappentext

This study is of the history of the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots.

Zusammenfassung
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. In this history of the padrone, first published in 2000, Gunther Peck argues that they were not primitive men but rather thoroughly modern entrepreneurs.

Inhalt
List of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The World Padrones Made: 1. Free land and unfree labor; 2. Padrones and corporations; 3. Defenders of contract; Part II. Reinventing Free Labor: 4. Manhood mobilized; 5. Mobilizing community; 6. Spaces of freedom; Epilogue: the vanishing padrone; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.