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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linden, Marcel van der, 1952- editor.

Rodriguez Garcia, Magaly, 1973- editor.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; Volume 25.

Studies in Global Social History, 1572-4107 ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced labor--History.

Forced labor.

Slave labor--History.

Slave labor.

Labor--History.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31638-8

OCLC:

938394181

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004316386 DOI