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This book contextualizes the historical and political construction of the guest worker program process in the modern US. Labor historian Quintana (California State Univ., Sacramento) organizes her book into eight major critical chapters, focusing on how the US government created guest worker programs to prevent unionism in the agricultural fields. Quintana provides a passionate, in-depth review and analysis on this critical subject, by both adopting historical accounts and exploiting primary materials, making this book not only original but also organic. The impetus for the book emerges within the context of a new wave of scholarly literature that challenges the Mexican guest worker focus of prior published scholarship, and that recognizes the major impacts of other transnational guest workers. The consequence of this new scholarship will result in major contributions for future research and scholarship on this critical subject matter. Every library should obtain a copy of this work for their Chicana/o history and ethnic studies collections.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.