The us empire is a project of global labor mobilization coercive management military presence and forced cultural encounter together the essays in this volume recognize the united states as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from central america to west africa to the united states itself. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the us empire this book offers new stories of empire that intersect with the grand narratives of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels missile defense cold war showdowns development politics military combat tourism and banana economics share something in common they all have labor histories . Making the empire work labor and united states imperialism edited by daniel e bender and jana k lipman new york new york university press 2015 384 pp index 89 cloth 35 paper this far ranging collection of essays explores the hundreds of thousands of men and women who worked for created and at times challenged the us empire p 1 by placing labor at the center of . This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed worked confronted and rendered the us empire visible the us empire is a project of global labor mobilization coercive management military presence and forced cultural encounter together the essays in this volume recognize the united states as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from central america to west africa to the united states itself. Pdf making the empire work labor and united states imperialism culture labor history download