Global Convict Labour

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.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of ContributorsEditors’ prefaceChristian G. De Vito and Alex LichtensteinWriting a global history of convict labourChristian G. De Vito and Alex LichtensteinPART ONE GENEALOGIES OF CONVICT LABOURContextualising condemnation to hard labour in the Roman empireMiriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. TacomaPenal enslavement in the early middle agesAlice RioPrison and convict labour in early modern EuropePieter Spierenburg“An Austrian Cayenne.” Convict labour and deportation in the Habsburg empire of the early modern periodStephan SteinerThe long view of convict labour in the Portuguese empire, 1415-1932 Timothy J. CoatesConvict labour extraction and transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1870Hamish Maxwell-StewartPART TWOCOLONIALITY, ETHNICITY, RACIALISM AND CONVICT LABOURLabouring for the Raj: convict work regimes in colonial India, 1836-1939David ArnoldThe relegation of recidivists in French Guiana in the 19th and 20th CenturiesJean-Lucien Sanchez“…a weapon of immense value”? Convict labour in British colonial Africa, c. 1850-1950sStacey HyndColonies of settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos AguirrePART THREE CONVICT LABOUR AND GOVERNMENTALITYGender and convict labour: the Italian case in global contextMary GibsonForced labour in Nazi concentration campsMarc BuggelnHistoricising the GulagLynne Viola“A defilade of trick ponies”: work and physical experience in the political prisonPadraic KenneyRethinking working class struggle through the lens of the Carceral state: toward a labour history of inmates and guardsHeather Ann ThompsonBibliographyIndex of places