Full Description
Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality.
The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration.
Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Editors' preface
Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein
Writing a global history of convict labour
Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein
PART ONE
GENEALOGIES OF CONVICT LABOUR
Contextualising condemnation to hard labour in the Roman empire
Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. Tacoma
Penal enslavement in the early middle ages
Alice Rio
Prison and convict labour in early modern Europe
Pieter Spierenburg
"An Austrian Cayenne." Convict labour and deportation in the Habsburg empire of the early modern period
Stephan Steiner
The long view of convict labour in the Portuguese empire, 1415-1932
Timothy J. Coates
Convict labour extraction and transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1870
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
PART TWO
COLONIALITY, ETHNICITY, RACIALISM AND CONVICT LABOUR
Labouring for the Raj: convict work regimes in colonial India, 1836-1939
David Arnold
The relegation of recidivists in French Guiana in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Jean-Lucien Sanchez
"...a weapon of immense value"? Convict labour in British colonial Africa, c. 1850-1950s
Stacey Hynd
Colonies of settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940
Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre
PART THREE
CONVICT LABOUR AND GOVERNMENTALITY
Gender and convict labour: the Italian case in global context
Mary Gibson
Forced labour in Nazi concentration camps
Marc Buggeln
Historicising the Gulag
Lynne Viola
"A defilade of trick ponies": work and physical experience in the political prison
Padraic Kenney
Rethinking working class struggle through the lens of the Carceral state: toward a labour history of inmates and guards
Heather Ann Thompson
Bibliography
Index of places
