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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Rural Industrialization and Imperial Politics 13 2. Contract Farming in Rural Michigan 39 3. Family Farms, Child Labor, and Migrant Families 65 4. Farmers and the Great War 96 5. Immigrant Labor and the Guest Worker Program 122 6. Mexican Immigrants and Immigration Debate 143 7. Child Labor Reformers and Industrial Agriculture 166 8. Remaking Imperialism and the Industrial Countryside 186 9. The Politics of Migrant Labor 215 Epilogue 241 Notes 247 Index 301 Illustrations follow page 64 ...

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