convict labor in the United States

Further Reading (Articles)

Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South., Journal of Social History; March 22, 1998; Hahamovitch, Cindy

A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896, Business History Review; October 1, 1999; Ash, Stephen V

BURMA: CONVICTS ABUSED AS SLAVE LABOR, HUMAN MINESWEEPERS, Inter Press Service English News Wire; August 31, 2006; Marwaan Macan-Markar

New South rebellion: the battle against convict labor in the Tennessee coalfields, 1871-1896., Labour/Le Travail; March 22, 1999

Washington State Convict-Labor Program Comes under Attack., Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; November 28, 2003

CONVICT LABOR DEAL IN RED INK.(Local/State), The Capital Times; May 17, 1999

LET’S NOT CONFINE FREE CONVICT LABOR TO BLUE-COLLAR JOBS, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); March 17, 1992

“Awakening a Dormant Appetite”: Captain McBane, Convict Labor, and Charles Chesnutt’s the Marrow of Tradition, The Southern Literary Journal; March 22, 2012; Gorman, Gene I.

ELKS LODGE LOSES CONVICT-LABOR PRIVILEGE DECISION ANNOUNCED ON HEELS OF CLUB’S REJECTION OF FEMALE APPLICANT, Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); May 24, 1996; Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer

ELKS LODGE LOSES CONVICT-LABOR PRIVILEGE : DECISION ANNOUNCED ON HEELS OF CLUB’S REJECTION OF FEMALE APPLICANT.(NEWS), Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); May 24, 1996

JUDGE ORDERS PROBE OF CONVICT LABOR COURT WILL TARGET DISCRIMINATION BY GROUPS THAT USE JAILED WORKERS, Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); May 25, 1996; Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer

JUDGE ORDERS PROBE OF CONVICT LABOR : COURT WILL TARGET DISCRIMINATION BY GROUPS THAT USE JAILED WORKERS.(NEWS), Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); May 25, 1996

Rights group: Myanmar uses ‘convict slave labor’, AP Online; July 12, 2011; TODD PITMAN

A Parody on the Law: Organized Labor, the Convict Lease, and Immigration in the Making of the Texas State Capitol, Journal of Social History; June 22, 2010; Blue, Ethan

Cambodia convicts labor activists, but frees them, AP Online; May 30, 2014

FEDERAL JURY CONVICTS JAMAICAN LABOR BROKER OF MONEY LAUNDERING, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; October 23, 2009

Head of DPW seeks more inmate labor Unions denounce move to use convicts for road maintenance, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); August 19, 1991; Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff

CONVICTS DO SOME HARD LABOR TO HELP CLEAN UP THE PALISADES, The Record (Bergen County, NJ); September 17, 1992; S. ROY GRAHAM, Record Staff Writer

Cambodia Court Convicts, Releases Labor Activists, States News Service; May 30, 2014

Long Island judge sets hearing into Indian slave labor convict’s late-night sojourns, AP Worldstream; May 16, 2008

Convict Labor

In Legislation

Convict Labor in the U.S. Code: Title 39, Part III, Chapter 22

The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating convict labor are compiled in the United States Code under Title 39, Part III, Chapter 22. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Postal Service (including convict labor) of the United States. The reader can further narrow his/her legal research of the general topic (in this case, Pastel Service Organization of the US Code, including convict labor) by chapter and subchapter.