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On Coerced Labor: Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery

On Coerced Labor: Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery

Author: Marcel van der Linden; Magaly Rodríguez García
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004316379
Published In: June 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

List of Maps, Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García

COERCED LABOR IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LAW

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

CONVICT AND MILITARY LABOR

Forced labor in colonial penal institutions across the Spanish, U.S., British, French Atlantic, 1860s-1920s

Kelvin Santiago-Valles

6. Convict labor in the southern borderlands of Latin America (ca.

1750s-1910s). Comparative perspectives

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.

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

David Palmer

AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL LABOR

9. Coerced coffee cultivation and rural agency . The plantation-economy of the Kivu (1918-1940)

Sven Van Melkebeke

10. “As much in bondage as they was before”: unfree labor during the New Deal (1935-1952)

Nicola Pizzolato

11. State-sanctioned coercion and agricultural contract labor: Jamaican and Mexican workers in Canada and the United States, 1909-2014

Luis F.B. Plascencia

12. “Modern slave labor” in Brazil at the intersection of production, migration and resistance networks

Lisa Carstensen

IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION

13. Dissecting coerced labor