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Convict labor

Here are entered works on the private employment of convicts. Works on the employment, by one employer, of laborers under contract with another employer or with a contractor, and on the lending of laborers by one employer to another employer are entered under Contract system (Labor).

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• Forced labor
• Prisoners

• Convict labor -- Canada
• Convict labor -- Michigan
• Convict labor -- Soviet Union
• Convict labor -- Spain
• Convict labor -- United States

• Lease system
• Prison labor
• Penal labour

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) for a Quarter of a Century: Life of William Walker (Saginaw, MI: Friedman and Hynan, 1892), by William Walker, ed. by Thomas S. Gaines (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), by Ruth Pike (PDF files at Libro)

• Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers (c2022), by American Civil Liberties Union and University of Chicago Global Human Rights Clinic (PDF with commentary at issuelab.org)
• The Crime of Crimes: or, The Convict System Unmasked (Washington: Pentecostal Era Co., 1907), by Clarissa Olds Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Penal Machinery and its Victims (new and revised edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1886), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" (New York: Friends of the Soviet Union, ca. 1931), by John J. Ballam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China (2022), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim (London: Religious Tract Society, 1910), by A Congo Resident, contrib. by H. Grattan Guinness (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo (second edition; London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908), by Herbert Strang, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag, ed. by Paul R. Gregory and V. V. Lazarev (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• The Hidden Gulag: Putting Human Rights on the North Korea Policy Agenda: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First session, November 4, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and text at govinfo.gov

• The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps: Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs (second edition; Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, c2012), by David R. Hawk (PDF at hrnk.org)

• Forced Labor in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia: A Comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristics, by Verité (PDF with commentary at verite.org)

• Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c1995), by Farhad Karim (PDF at hrw.org)

• Trafficking in Persons Report, by United States Department of State (full serial archives)

• The Origin of Forced Labor in the Soviet State, 1917-1921: Documents and Materials (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Bunyan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Forced Labor in the United States (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Walter Wilson, contrib. by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" (New York: Friends of the Soviet Union, ca. 1931), by John J. Ballam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Slave Labor in Russia: The Case Presented by the American Federation of Labor to the United Nations (c1949), by American Federation of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (2004), by Free the Slaves (Organization) and University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center (PDF at Cornell)
• Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers (c2022), by American Civil Liberties Union and University of Chicago Global Human Rights Clinic (PDF with commentary at issuelab.org)
• Forced Labor in the United States (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Walter Wilson, contrib. by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Labour Produce, by Elihu Burritt (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor As Determined by the Plantation Regime, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (Gutenberg text)
• American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Planation Regime (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (Richmond, VA: A. Morris, 1857), by George Fitzhugh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c1995), by David Northrup
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The German Immigration into Pennsylvania Through the Port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775 (two parts, the second titled The Redemptioners, in one volume; Lancaster; The author, 1900), by Frank Ried Diffenderffer (page images at Hathitrust)

• Practical, Sharp, Eccentric and Humorous Prison-Life Thoughts! (Philadelphia: Landis publishing society, 1872), by Simon M. Landis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Habitat in Prisons (Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2013), by Pier Giorgio Nembrini (PDF with commentary at icrc.org)

• Bird-Self Accumulated (New York and London: New York University Press, 1996), by Don Judson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": An Annotated Critical Edition (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, c2003), by Ambrose Bierce, ed. by Robert C. Evans (frame-dependent HTML and page images at ambrosebierce.org)
• A Long Day in a Short Life (New York: International Publishers, c1957), by Albert Maltz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Convict: A Tale (London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1851), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text)
• Botany Bay: or, True Tales of Early Australia, by John Lang (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• For the Term of His Natural Life, by Marcus Clarke (Gutenberg text)
• For the Term of His Natural Life (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1892), by Marcus Clarke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• For the Term of His Natural Life (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Marcus Clarke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Le Vagabond des Étoiles (The Star Rover in French; Paris: G. Grès et cie, 1925), by Jack London, trans. by Paul Gruyer and Louis Postif (Gutenberg text)
• The Star Rover (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1915), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Vicar of Wakefield (main text from 1903 A. and C. Black edition; illustrations and accompanying essays from various editions), by Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by Louise Hope, contrib. by Joseph Grego, John Forster, and Austin Dobson, illust. by John Massey Wright, Margaret Jameson, and William Mulready (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• English Prisons To-Day: Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Prison System Enquiry Committee (Great Britain), ed. by Stephen Hobhouse and Fenner Brockway (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
• The Kangaroo Hunters, or, Adventures in the Bush (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1859), by Anne Bowman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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