Global convict labour / / edited by Christian Giuseppe De Vito, Alex Lichtenstein.

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History, Volume 19
• TeilnehmendeR: De Vito, Christian G.,; Lichtenstein, Alexander C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; Volume 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality. The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration. Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Christian Giuseppe De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein -- Writing a Global History of Convict Labour / Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein -- Contextualising Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire / Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. Tacoma -- Penal Enslavement in the Early Middle Ages / Alice Rio -- Prison and Convict Labour in Early Modern Europe / Pieter Spierenburg -- “ An Austrian Cayenne”: Convict Labour and Deportation in the Habsburg Empire of the Early Modern Period / Stephan Steiner -- The Long View of Convict Labour in the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1932 / Timothy J. Coates -- Convict Labour Extraction and Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1870 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart -- Labouring for the Raj: Convict Work Regimes in Colonial India, 1836–1939 / David Arnold -- The Relegation of Recidivists in French Guiana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Jean-Lucien Sanchez -- “… a Weapon of Immense Value”? Convict labour in British Colonial Africa, c. 1850–1950s / Stacey Hynd -- Colonies of Settlement or Places of Banishment and Torment? Penal Colonies and Convict Labour in Latin America, c. 1800–1940 / Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre -- Gender and Convict Labour: The Italian Case in Global Context / Mary Gibson -- Forced Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps / Marc Buggeln -- Historicising the Gulag / Lynne Viola -- “A Parade of Trick Horses”: Work and Physical Experience in the Political Prison / Padraic Kenney -- Rethinking Working Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labour History of Inmates and Guards / Heather Ann Thompson -- Bibliography / Christian Giuseppe De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein -- Index of Places / Christian Giuseppe De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein.