Bøger af Alex Lichtenstein

Both a study of penal labour in the Southern United States and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War, this book reveals that the economic modernization of the South was largely promoted through the use of forced black labour - penal slavery.

Rick Halpern is the Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto. He is author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago¿s Packinghouses and other works on race and labor.Alex Lichtenstein is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South.