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Author:   Marcel M. Linden ,  Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   25
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.715kg
ISBN:  

9789004316379

ISBN 10:   900431637
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   16 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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