Contracting FreedomContracting Freedom is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth century U. S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, focusing on their shared origins. It investigates these government sponsored programs as the unexplored consequence of the history of enslaved labor, Japanese American incarceration, the New Deal, the long civil rights movement, and Caribbean decolonization. In the World War II era, U. S. lawmakers and