Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest

Leigh Binford is Chair of the Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Department of the College of Staten Island, CUNY. He is the author of The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights, coedited Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Community, and the Nation-State in Twentieth-Century El Salvador and Zapotec Struggles, and coauthored Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism.

Binford has written an impressive and compelling book on the Canadian SAWP. The critical examination of this highly regarded program is timely as governments and industries argue for programs of their own without consideration of the human costs involved. For anthropologists entering into the fray of globalization and the consequences of neoliberal policies, this book makes a welcome contribution. (American Anthropologist)

• List of Maps, Figures, and TablesList of AcronymsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contract Labor Migration in Theory and PracticeChapter 1: Agricultural Crisis, Migration, and Contract Labor: Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, CanadaChapter 2: The Dual Process of Constructing Mexican Contract WorkersChapter 3: “Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest”: Case Studies of Contract Labor MigrationChapter 4: Interrogating Racialized Global Labor Supply: Caribbean and Mexican Workers in Canada’s SAWP (by Kerry Preibisch and Leigh Binford)Chapter 5: The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Mexican DevelopmentChapter 6: The Political Economy of Contract Labor in Neoliberal North America: Cheap Labor and Organized LaborChapter 7: Globalization and Temporary Migrants: Post-National Citizens, Realpolitik, and Disposable Labor PowerAppendix: The SAWP: Saving the Family Farm or Feeding Corporate Enterprise?NotesReferencesIndex