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On Coerced Labor
Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery
Series: - Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 25
On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the âextremeâ categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as âfree laborâ and âslavery.â 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 workersâ 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 RodrÃguez GarcÃa, 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 RodrÃguez GarcÃa, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.
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 RodrÃguez GarcÃa 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 âDefining Commercial Sexualities, Past and Presentâ (Ashgate, 2016).
Magaly RodrÃguez GarcÃa 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 âDefining Commercial Sexualities, Past and Presentâ (Ashgate, 2016).
Acknowledgments ... vii
List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii
Notes on Contributors ... ix
1 Introduction ... 1
Marcel van der Linden and Magaly RodrÃguez GarcÃa
Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law
2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11
Magaly RodrÃguez GarcÃa
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, 1860sâ1920s ... 73
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750sâ1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98
Christian G. De Vito
7 âA military necessity which must be pressedâ: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127
Justin F. Jackson
8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishiâs Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workersâ 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 (1918â1940) ... 187
Sven Van Melkebeke
10 âAs much in bondage as they was beforeâ: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935â1952) ... 208
Nicola Pizzolato
11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909â2014 ... 225
Luis F.B. Plascencia
12 âModern Slave Laborâ 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 RodrÃguez GarcÃa
Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law
2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11
Magaly RodrÃguez GarcÃa
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, 1860sâ1920s ... 73
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750sâ1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98
Christian G. De Vito
7 âA military necessity which must be pressedâ: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127
Justin F. Jackson
8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishiâs Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workersâ 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 (1918â1940) ... 187
Sven Van Melkebeke
10 âAs much in bondage as they was beforeâ: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935â1952) ... 208
Nicola Pizzolato
11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909â2014 ... 225
Luis F.B. Plascencia
12 âModern Slave Laborâ 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
MA students, and junior and senior researchers interested in the history of work, as well as anyone concerned with contemporary debates on human trafficking and so-called âmodern slaveryâ.