front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Rural Industrialization and Imperial Politics -- 2. Contract Farming in Rural Michigan -- Illustrations follow page 64 -- 3. Family Farms, Child Labor, and Migrant Families -- 4. Farmers and...

This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and robust theorizations that allow...