Global convict labour

Global Convict Labour
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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 RomanEmpire
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