At the beginning of World Wad II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in the U.S. agricultural fields.In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen applies a cultural approach to analyze the political economy of labor migration, the rise of large scale corporate agriculture, and state-to-state relations, showing how World War II and postwar periods laid the groundwork for current debates over immigration and globalization.