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Book SynopsisGuantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. This history of the women and men who worked on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay tells the story of US-Cuban relations from a fresh perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people.
Trade Review"Lipman offers a new and compelling angle on the crisis." London Review Of Books "Lipman's account is impressive, original, and well researched... Should interest foreign relations scholars, Latin America area specialists, and labor historians." H-Net Reviews "Splendid... Lipman shows successfully that Cuban workers mattered." International History Review "Lipman has produced a grounded, powerful critique of United States policy." Estudios Interdisciplinarios De America Latina Y El Caribe (Eial)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Between Guantanamo and GTMO Prologue: Regional Politics, 1898, and the Platt Amendment 1. The Case of Kid Chicle: Military Expansion and Labor Competition, 1939-1945 2. "We Are Real Democrats": Legal Debates and Cold War Unionism before Castro, 1940-1954 3. Good Neighbors, Good Revolutionaries, 1940-1958 4. A "Ticklish" Position: Revolution, Loyalty, and Crisis, 1959-1964 5. Contract Workers, Exiles, and Commuters: Neocolonial and Postmodern Labor Arrangements Epilogue: Post 9/11: Empire and Labor Redux Appendix: Guantanamo Civil Registry, 1921-1958 Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
