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%T 'Subject to control': shifting geographies of race and labour in US sugar agroindustry, 1930-1950
%A Hollander, Gail M.
%J Cultural Geographies
%N 2
%P 266-292
%V 13
%D 2006
%= 2011-03-01T07:26:00Z
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%X This article analyses how processes of racialization and place making converged in                south Florida as the region's sugar agroindustry shifted from a southern US                to a Caribbean labour market. The article engages theoretically at the intersection                of the literatures on the geographies of race and labour, paying particular                attention to ideas about the role of the state in each. I argue that such an                engagement not only enhances the collective analytical power of such approaches, but                that it is also critical for understanding agroindustry labour practices in south                Florida. The empirical materials used include historical documents, reports and                publications of the US Government and the United States Sugar Corporation (USSC).                The analysis shows how ideas of corporate paternalism and industrial managerialism                promoted by USSC were melded to an agricultural enterprise embedded in the racism of                the Jim Crow South and the history of plantation slavery. The contradictions between                USSC's dependence on cheap labour disciplined by Jim Crow violence and its                corporate paternalism would never be fully reconciled and ultimately would prove                untenable. As a consequence, sugar industry investors in collaboration with state                labour regulators reimagined the ideal cane worker, elaborating intraracial                categories of black labour based on place of origin. As the geography of labour                markets was rescaled to the international level, the primary mechanism of labour                control shifted from Jim Crow to summary deportation of foreign black workers from                the Caribbean. This study contributes to our understanding of how historic processes                of racialization are bound together with the political and economic processes of                regional agroindustrial development.
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%9 journal article
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