front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Rural Industrialization and Imperial Politics -- 2. Contract Farming in Rural Michigan -- Illustrations follow page 64 -- 3. Family Farms, Child Labor, and Migrant Families -- 4. Farmers and the Great War -- 5. Immigrant Labor and the Guest Worker Program -- 6. Mexican Immigrants and immigration Debate -- 7. Child Labor Reformers and Industrial Agriculture -- 8. Remaking Imperialism and the Industrial Countryside -- 9. The Politics of Migrant Labor -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- back cover.