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Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality.
The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration.
Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.
The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration.
Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.
Price: $267.00
Pages: 500
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Global Social History
Publication Date:
12 June 2015
ISBN: 9789004285019
Format: Hardcover
Christian G. De Vito, Ph.D. (2008), University of Leicester, is Research Associate at that university, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He has published articles and monographs on prison-, labour-, and global history.
Alex Lichtenstein, Ph.D. (1990, University of Pennsylvania), is Associate Professor at Indiana University. A historian of labour and race relations in the U.S. South, he has more recently turned his attention to the history of South Africa under apartheid.
Alex Lichtenstein, Ph.D. (1990, University of Pennsylvania), is Associate Professor at Indiana University. A historian of labour and race relations in the U.S. South, he has more recently turned his attention to the history of South Africa under apartheid.