No man's land: Jamaican guestworkers in America and the global history of deportable labor

Introduction

Guestworkers of the world, unite! : you have nothing to lose but your passport, your visa, your immigration status

Everything but a gun to their heads : the politics of labor scarcity and the birth of World War II guestworker programs

"Stir it up" : Jamaican guestworkers in the promised land

John Bull meets Jim Crow : Jamaican guestworkers in the wartime South

The race to the bottom : making wartime temporary worker programs permanent and private

A riotous success : guestworkers, "illegal immigrants, " and the promise of managed migration

The worst job in the world : the Cuban Revolution, the war on poverty, and the secret rebellion in Florida's cane fields

Takin' it to the courts : legal services, the UFW, and the battle for the worst jobs in the world

"For all those bending years" : IRCA, the dog war, and the campaign for legal status

All the world's a workplace : guestworkers at the turn of the twenty-first century.