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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
Acknowledgments ... vii
List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii
Notes on Contributors ... ix
1 Introduction ... 1
Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García
Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law
2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11
Magaly Rodríguez García
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
