La Historia Se Repite: Parallels between the Bracero Program and the H-2A Visa Process Highlight the Need for a Decolonial Migrant Labor Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Saadati-Soto
Keyword(s):  
Labor Policy ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Bracero Program

The State

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Reproductive Choices ◽  
The Road ◽  
Global Labor Market ◽  
Development State

The Philippine state is a key mediator in the global labor market for voice. Colonization by Spain and the United States generated what the scholar Walden Bello calls an “anti-development state.” Catholic ideology limits women’s’ reproductive choices, while a migrant labor policy sends the country’s best and brightest abroad to work and remit money back home. For ordinary Filipinos who finish college, the result is a bifurcated choice: leave the country to find prosperity or stay at home and live in poverty. The megacity of Manila is where so many Filipinos find themselves negotiating this difficult fork in the road.

RENT SEEKING, THE BRACERO PROGRAM AND CURRENT MEXICAN FARM LABOR POLICY

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
LISA BASURTO ◽  
CHARLES D. DELORME ◽  
DAVID R. KAMERSCHEN
Keyword(s):  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Bracero Program

MAKING APARTHEID WORK: AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS AND THE 1953 NATIVE LABOUR (SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES) ACT IN SOUTH AFRICA

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX LICHTENSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Floor Control ◽  
Settlement Of Disputes ◽  
Influx Control

Most analyses of apartheid labor policy focus on the regulation of the labor market rather than the industrial workplace. Instead, this article investigates the administration of South Africa's 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act to examine shop-floor control rather than influx control. The article argues that in response to the threat of African trade unionism, apartheid policymakers in the Department of Labour addressed the problem of low African wages and expanded the use of ‘works committees’. By shifting the debate about capitalism and apartheid away from influx control and migrant labor, and towards industrial legislation and shop-floor conflict, the article places working-class struggle at the center of an analysis of apartheid.

Unpredictability and Life Style in a Migrant Labor Camp

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Nelkin
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Camp

Editor's Note On Japan's Labor Policy

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Kazuo Sato
Keyword(s):  
Labor Policy
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