On coerced labor : : work and compulsion after chattel slavery / / edited by Marcel van der Linden, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia.

On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observati...

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Superior document:Studies in Global Social History, Volume 25
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in global social history ; Volume 25.
Physical Description:1 online resource (387 pages) :; illustrations, tables, maps.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Other title:Preliminary Material /
Introduction /
On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor /
Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation /
Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India /
Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, U.S., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s /
Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives /
‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The U.S. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines /
Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan /
Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) /
“As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) /
State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 /
“Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks /
Dissecting Coerced Labor /
Bibliography /
Index /
Summary:On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004316388
ISSN:1572-4107 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marcel van der Linden, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia.