Punishing Workers, Managing Labour
Punishing Workers, Managing Labour
Adam Fagbore
Eric Vanhaute
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USDContributors to this volume examine the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, looking into the histories of blinded slaves in ancient Mesopotamia, flogged peasant farmers in Pharaonic Egypt, convict officers in the prisons of colonial India, and blacklisted factory workers in the nineteenth-century US, as well as rural workers in the medieval Frankish kingdoms, soldiers and domestic servants in early modern Scandinavia, working children in colonial Bolivia, textile workers in Lombardy, enslaved Africans in Brazil and the US, and household workers in Late Imperial China. The introduction suggests ways to compare the role of punishment in the management of labour across space and time. The editors claim that the effective management of labour required the systematic differentiation of the workforce; to that end, the imposition of diversified forms of punishment did not merely reflect existing labour distinctions but also contributed to their creation.
- This volume examines the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, drawing on examples from a range of historical and cultural contexts
- Bringing together the work of leading academics, the volume includes cases from the ancient world, colonial India, medieval and modern Europe, the Americas and China
- The editors claim that the effective management of labour required the systematic differentiation of the workforce, with diversified forms of punishment not merely reflecting but creating labour distinctions
Product details
October 2023Paperback
9781009421348
280 pages
228 × 152 × 12 mm
0.37kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Punitive Perspectives on Labour Management Christian de Vito and Adam Fagbore
- 2. Corporal and Collective Punishment for Labour Control in Mesopotamia Nicholas Reid
- 3. Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt Alexandre Loktionov
- 4. Punishment and the Revenue Extraction Process in Pharaonic Egypt Adam Fagbore
- 5. Punishment of Workers in Early Medieval Francia Alice Rio
- 6. Moving to Your Place: Guardianship, Punishment and Unfree Labour of Children and Youth in Charcas (16th–18th Centuries) Paola Revilla OrÃas
- 7. Controlling Labour? Norms, Discourses and Practices on Labour and Punishment in Late Imperial China Claude Chevaleyre
- 8. 'They Have No Property to Loose': The Impasse of Free Labour in the Lombard Silk Manufactures (1780–1810) Lorenzo Avellino
- 9. Mercenary Punishment: Penal Logics in the Military Labour Market Johan Heinsen
- 10. Absolute Obedience: Servants and Masters on Danish Estates in the Nineteenth Century Dorte Kook Lyngholm
- 11. The Political Economy of Punishment. Slavery in Brazil and the United States in the Nineteenth Century Marcelo Rosanova Ferraro
- 12. The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. Goodwin's Law and Order League, and the Blacklist of Martin Irons Chad Pearson
- 13. Guarded by Convicts: The Convict Officer System in Prisons of Colonial India Michaela Dimmers.
