Contracting freedom: race, empire, and U.S. guestworker programs

Introduction : Freedom struggles and the labor contract

Free or slave? A genealogy of labor contract coercion and freedom

Good neighbors? Contract labor and the limits of freedom during the New Deal

Japanese braceros : the co-constitution of the bracero program and Japanese American incarceration

From civil rights to immigration restriction : the search for U.S. labor rights in the 1950s

Boricua braceros : the New Deal and the U.S.-Puerto Rican farm labor program

Empire and nation : Caribbean independence and the farm labor programs in the British West Indies

Epilogue : Civil rights for whom? U.S. civil rights and the labor importation programs.