On Coerced Labor
Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery
Published on 16. June 2016
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Hardback
388 pages
978-90-04-31637-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 Rodriguez Garcia, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.
Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
3 s/w Zeichnungen, 3 s/w Abbildungen, 1 farbige Abbildung, 8 s/w Tabellen
8 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-31637-9 (9789004316379)
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Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery
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Marcel van der Linden is Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam, and President of the International Social History Association.
Magaly Rodriguez Garcia is Assistant Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She has published on human trafficking and child labor, the history and definitions of prostitution, including "Defining Commercial Sexualities, Past and Present" (Ashgate, 2016).
Magaly Rodriguez Garcia is Assistant Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She has published on human trafficking and child labor, the history and definitions of prostitution, including "Defining Commercial Sexualities, Past and Present" (Ashgate, 2016).
Content
Acknowledgments ... vii
List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii
Notes on Contributors ... ix
1 Introduction ... 1
Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law
2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11
Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30
Nicole Siller
4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50
Christine Molfenter
Part 2 Convict and Military Labor
5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s-1920s ... 73
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s-1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98
Christian G. De Vito
7 'A military necessity which must be pressed': The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127
Justin F. Jackson
8 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 ... 159
David Palmer
Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor
9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918-1940) ... 187
Sven Van Melkebeke
10 "As much in bondage as they was before": Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935-1952) ... 208
Nicola Pizzolato
11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909-2014 ... 225
Luis F.B. Plascencia
12 "Modern Slave Labor" in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267
Lisa Carstensen
Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion
13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293
Marcel van der Linden
Bibliography ... 323
Index ... 369
List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii
Notes on Contributors ... ix
1 Introduction ... 1
Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law
2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11
Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30
Nicole Siller
4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50
Christine Molfenter
Part 2 Convict and Military Labor
5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s-1920s ... 73
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s-1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98
Christian G. De Vito
7 'A military necessity which must be pressed': The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127
Justin F. Jackson
8 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 ... 159
David Palmer
Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor
9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918-1940) ... 187
Sven Van Melkebeke
10 "As much in bondage as they was before": Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935-1952) ... 208
Nicola Pizzolato
11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909-2014 ... 225
Luis F.B. Plascencia
12 "Modern Slave Labor" in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267
Lisa Carstensen
Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion
13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293
Marcel van der Linden
Bibliography ... 323
Index ... 369