| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
human exploitation |
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labor |
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prisoners |
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sociology |
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welfare |
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workers rights |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Forced labor -- United States
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Labor.
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Industrial relations.
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Forced labor.
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Work
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labor.
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industrial relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
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Forced labor
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Industrial relations
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Labor
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520973404 |
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0520973402 |
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