Capturing Labor

A History of Unfree Work in the Southwest
Herausgeber: Pliley, Jessica R; Mckiernan-González, John

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays grappling with the many, often overlooked, forms of unfree labor in the West

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477333457
• ISBN-10: 1477333452
• Artikelnr.: 75445019

Autorenporträt

Jessica R. Pliley is a professor of women's and gender history at Texas State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI and the coeditor of Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy, and Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and "Immorality." John Mckiernan-González is the director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest and an associate professor of history at Texas State University. He is the author of Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942, and coeditor of Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction (Jessica R. Pliley and John Mckiernan-GonzÁlez)
2. I. Troubling Contracts: Limiting Worker Mobility in the Labor Market
* 1. Constructing Coercion: Labor Regimes and Sex Workers at the
US-Mexico Borderlands (Erik Bernardino)
* 2. Cotton’s Paradise: Coerced Labor and the Right to Live During the
Great Depression in El Paso, Texas, 1931–1933 (Yolanda ChÁvez Leyva)
* 3. “We Never Had No Payday Here”: Folk Song, Forced Labor and the
Carceral State in Texas (Jason Mellard)
* 4. Mario CantÚ and the Struggle Against Unfree Labor in San Antonio,
Tejas, and Mexico, 1969–1984 (Jerry GonzÁlez)
3. II. Imprisoning Housework: (Re)producing Unfreedom
* 5. The Curse of Cane: Sugar, Race, and the Bittersweet Legacy of
Prison Segregation in Texas, 1871–1926 (Jermaine Thibodeaux)
* 6. The Carceral Rescue Industry: World War I-Era Anti-Prostitution
Campaigns in Texas (Ánh Adams and Jessica R. Pliley)
* 7. Native Women and Unfree Labor: The Haskell Indian Boarding School
Experience (Bethany Eby)
* 8. “Nobody Paid Me Anything”: Forced Labor in California Institutions
for the Feebleminded (Natalie Lira)
4. Epilogue: Chasing (and Being Chased by) Slavery—A Borderlands Journey (Luis
C. de Baca)
5. Acknowledgments
6. Index