Contact details
- Name:
- Wynanda Tribaldos
- Institute:
- Institute of Historical Research
- Email address:
- wynanda.tribaldos@london.ac.uk
- Studies:
- Student
- Research Projects & Supervisions
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- PhD Topic:
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Thesis Title: Procuring Empire: The Isthmian Canal Commission and the Transnational Recruitment of the Panama Canal Workforce, 1904–1914.
Abstract: This dissertation examines how the ICC recruited the contract laborers of its Silver Roll workforce between 1904 and 1914, and who did the recruiting. It asks whether the Commission operated through a uniform system, varied its methods by territory and period, or relied on the ad hoc routines of individual officials and their intermediaries. Workers reached the Isthmus in three ways: official recruitment, intermediary procurement, and independent arrival. The study focuses on the first two and treats independent arrivals as background. It covers the U.S. construction period and ends when workers arrive on the Isthmus. How migrant workers experienced life and work there is outside its scope.
- Supervisor:
- Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf & Dr Ash Cox
- Research interests:
- History