Global Convict Labour.

Intro -- Global Convict Labour -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Writing a Global History of Convict Labour -- PART 1: Genealogies of Convict Labour -- 1 Contextualising Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire -- 2 Penal Enslavement in the Early Middle Ages -- 3 Prison and Convict Labour in Early Modern Europe -- 4 " An Austrian Cayenne": Convict Labour and Deportation in the Habsburg Empire of the Early Modern Period -- 5 The Long View of Convict Labour in the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1932 -- 6 Convict Labour Extraction and Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1870 -- PART 2: Coloniality, Ethnicity, Racialism and Convict Labour -- 7 Labouring for the Raj: Convict Work Regimes in Colonial India, 1836-1939 -- 8 The Relegation of Recidivists in French Guiana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 9 "… a Weapon of Immense Value"? Convict labour in British Colonial Africa, c. 1850-1950s -- 10 Colonies of Settlement or Places of Banishment and Torment? Penal Colonies and Convict Labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940 -- PART 3: Convict Labour and Governmentality -- 11 Gender and Convict Labour: The Italian Case in Global Context -- 12 Forced Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps -- 13 Historicising the Gulag -- 14 "A Parade of Trick Horses": Work and Physical Experience in the Political Prison -- 15 Rethinking Working Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labour History of Inmates and Guards -- Bibliography -- Index of Places.

In Global Convict Labour, nineteen contributors offer a global and comparative history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from the Antiquity to the present.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.