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Title On coerced labor : work and compulsion after chattel slavery / edited by Marcel van der Linden, Magaly Rodríguez García
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages)
Series Studies in global social history ; volume 25
Studies in global social history ; v. 25.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 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
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Subject Forced labor -- History
Slave labor -- History
Labor -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Forced labor
Labor
Slave labor
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Linden, Marcel van der, 1952- editor.
Rodriguez Garcia, Magaly, 1973- editor.
LC no. 2016017974
ISBN 9789004316386
9004316388