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.
©2016
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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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García
  • Introduction / Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García
  • On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor / Magaly Rodríguez García
  • Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation / Nicole Siller
  • Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India / Christine Molfenter
  • Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, U.S., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s / Kelvin Santiago-Valles
  • Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives / Christian G. De Vito
  • ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The U.S. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines / Justin F. Jackson
  • 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 / David Palmer
  • Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) / Sven Van Melkebeke
  • “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) / Nicola Pizzolato
  • State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 / Luis F.B. Plascencia
  • “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks / Lisa Carstensen
  • Dissecting Coerced Labor / Marcel van der Linden
  • Bibliography / Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García
  • Index / Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García.