Movable Empire
The story of how America’s imperial quest for labor shaped the hemisphere’s working class.
Julie Greene is professor of history and co-director of the Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland, and the author of The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal.
The story of how America’s imperial quest for labor shaped the hemisphere’s working class.
Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn’t build the Panama Canal. Workers did.