Title Harvesting labour : tobacco and the global making of Canada's agricultural workforce / Edward Dunsworth

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Rethinking Canada in the world ; 12 Rethinking Canada in the world ; 12. Contents Green Gold Rush -- Moving Up and Fighting Back -- Controlling Migrants -- Hippies, Frenchies, and Girls -- Global Guest Workers -- Boys Like These -- Tobacco Transformed Summary "In recent decades an increasing share of Canada's agricultural workforce has been made up of temporary foreign workers from the Global South. These labourers work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections and are effectively barred from permanent settlement in Canada. In Harvesting Labour, Edward Dunsworth examines the history of farm work in one of Canada's underrecognized but most important crop sectors--Ontario tobacco. Dunsworth takes aim at the idea that temporary foreign worker programs emerged in response to labour shortages or the unwillingness of Canadians to work in agriculture. To the contrary, Ontario's tobacco sector was extremely popular with workers for much of the twentieth century, with high wages attracting a diverse workforce and enabling thousands to establish themselves as small farm owners. By the end of the century, however, the sector had become something entirely different: a handful of mega-farms relying on foreign guest workers to produce their crops. Taking readers from the leafy fields of Ontario's tobacco belt to rural Jamaica, Barbados, and North Carolina and on to the halls of government, Dunsworth demonstrates how the ultimate transformation of tobacco--and Canadian agriculture writ large--was fundamentally a function of the capitalist restructuring of farming. Harvesting Labour brings together the fields of labour, migration, and business history to reinterpret of the historical origins of contemporary Canadian agriculture and its workforce."-- Provided by publisher Analysis African Americans Atlantic Barbados Blacks British West Indies Caribbean Delhi Great Depression Jamaica New Brunswick Newfoundland Norfolk County North Carolina Nova Scotia Ontario PEI Prince Edward Island Quebec Simcoe Tillsonburg United States Virginia WW2 War business capitalism diplomacy economy employment farm flue-cured gender globalization guestworkers immigration international relations migration oral protest race racism resistance shortages social mobility state temporary foreign workers transients transnationalism unions women world history youth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2022) Subject Tobacco workers -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Tobacco farms -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Agricultural laborers -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Labor supply -- Canada -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Canadian Studies. Agricultural laborers Agricultural laborers, Foreign Labor supply Tobacco farms Tobacco workers Canada Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0228012694 9780228012702 0228012708 9780228012696

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