American Guestworkers
Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market
256 pages | 4 maps | 6 x 9 | 2006
ISBN 978-0-271-02949-8 | cloth: $57.95 sh
ISBN 978-0-271-03188-0 | paper: $30.00 sh
The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longestrunning labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.
David Griffith is Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University. He is also the author of The Estuary’s Gift: An Atlantic Coast Biography (Penn State, 1999).