American slavery since abolition / Kristofer Allerfeldt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allerfeldt, Kristofer, 1959- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced labor--United States.

Forced labor.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Human trafficking--United States.

Human trafficking.

Precarious employment--United States.

Precarious employment.

African Americans--Economic conditions--19th century.

African Americans.

Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Slavery--History.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States.

United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

260 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2027.

Summary:

"This approachable volume uncovers the often-hidden history behind the persistence and resilience of modern slavery in the United States, tracing its evolution from the forced labour on nineteenth century plantations to today's hidden global networks of coercion, exploitation and human trafficking. In the period leading up to our modern era, Americans participated in, and profited from, the enslavement of African men and women, Native American children, Chinese peasants, Polynesian islanders, American sailors, and teenage girls from Asia and Eastern Europe. Historical in approach, American Slavery Since Abolition explores the evolution of distinctly modern forms of exploitation like the Prison Industrial Complex, the gig economy, enslavement by the algorithm, cloning and organ theft. Engaging with concepts of agency and coercion, wage-slavery and economic inequality, the book unravels how old systems of domination seem to have been continuously reshaped and reinvigorated by new technologies, requiring ever-expanding supply chains. It shows how these encourage exploitation despite near-continuous efforts to abolish the repulsive trade in human misery, and in doing so, exposes the troubling ways in which the modern US, and most other economies, continue to participate in, and depend on, unfree labour. Lucid and unsettling, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, politics, sociology and American studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Emancipation

Re-enslaving the American Black

Native American slavery

Chinese slavery in America

Slave traders, slave smugglers, black birding and Shangahiing

Involuntary servitude and wage slavery

Sex trafficking

Technology and the future of slavery in the US.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781032841656

1032841656

9781032841458

1032841451

OCLC:

1569913075

Publisher Number:

90104892057

CIPO000385996