The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945

Contents

COntents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii Introduction 3 ONE A PcrfCcUyIrrnsisUbleChange The Transformation ofEast Coast Agriculture 14 TWO llle8aclificeofGolden Boysand Ci~s The Padrone System and NewJersey Agriculture 38 THREE ProgressiVesas Padroni Labor Distribution and the Agrarian Ideal 55 FOUR Workor fight The State as Padrone during the First World War 79 FIVE llleSUnshinestateMeetsthe GarllenState Farm Labor during the Long Depression 1 13 Vl SIX Wards ofthestate Farmworker Unionism and the New Deal 138 SEVEN Unclesam as Padmne The Politics of Labor Supply in Depression and War 151 EIGHT The Unionas Padmne The "Underground Railroad" during the Second World War 182 Epilogue 200 Notes 205 Bibliography 247 Index 275 CONTENTS ...