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Coerced Work under Threat of Punishment.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520973404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD6971 .C647 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. "Wicked" and "Blessed": Cultural Narratives of Coerced Labor -- 2. "Either You Do It or You're Going to the Box": Coercion and Compliance -- 3. "They Talk to You in Any Kind of Way": Subjugation, Vulnerability, and the Body -- 4. "Stay Out They Way": Agency and Resistance -- 5. "I'm Getting Ethiopia Pay for My Work": Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. The Story of This Book -- Appendix B. People qua Data -- Notes
Index
Subject: What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of ""employment"" reigns supreme--one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. "Wicked" and "Blessed": Cultural Narratives of Coerced Labor -- 2. "Either You Do It or You're Going to the Box": Coercion and Compliance -- 3. "They Talk to You in Any Kind of Way": Subjugation, Vulnerability, and the Body -- 4. "Stay Out They Way": Agency and Resistance -- 5. "I'm Getting Ethiopia Pay for My Work": Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. The Story of This Book -- Appendix B. People qua Data -- Notes

Selected Bibliography -- Index

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of ""employment"" reigns supreme--one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that.

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