1.
Pizzolato, Nico
Constructing Debt: Discursive and Material Strategies of Labour Coercion in the US South, 1903–1964 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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2.
Bernardi, Claudia
Empalmado y Contratado: The Valorisation and Coexistence of Labour Mobility and Immobilisation in the Experience of Mexican ‘Braceros’, 1940s–1960s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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3.
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
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4.
Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
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5.
Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
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6.
Müller, Viola
Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americans in the American Urban South, c. 1830-1860 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 60, pp. 865-868, 2019.
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7.
Müller, Viola
Illegal but Ignored: Slave Refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860 Book Chapter
In: Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.): Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 1775-1860, pp. 137-167, 2018.
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8.
Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.)
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, Gainesville Collection
2018.
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9.
Pizzolato, Nico
Harvests of shame: enduring unfree labour in the twentieth-century United States, 1933–1964 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 59, iss. 4, pp. 1-19, 2018.
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10.
Weber, Klaus
Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism] Journal Article
In: Kritische Justiz, vol. 50, iss. 2, pp. 187-194, 2017.
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11.
Pargas, Damian Alan
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South Book
2014.
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12.
Weber, Klaus; Meissner, Jochen; Mücke, Ulrich
Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei [Black America. A History of Slavery] Book
2008.
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2024
Pizzolato, Nico
Constructing Debt: Discursive and Material Strategies of Labour Coercion in the US South, 1903–1964 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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2023
Bernardi, Claudia
Empalmado y Contratado: The Valorisation and Coexistence of Labour Mobility and Immobilisation in the Experience of Mexican ‘Braceros’, 1940s–1960s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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2022
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
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Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
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Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, race, runaways, slavery, united states, urbanity
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2019
Müller, Viola
Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americans in the American Urban South, c. 1830-1860 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 60, pp. 865-868, 2019.
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2018
Müller, Viola
Illegal but Ignored: Slave Refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860 Book Chapter
In: Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.): Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 1775-1860, pp. 137-167, 2018.
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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, Gainesville Collection
2018.
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Pizzolato, Nico
Harvests of shame: enduring unfree labour in the twentieth-century United States, 1933–1964 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 59, iss. 4, pp. 1-19, 2018.
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This article reframes the discussion on vulnerable and exploited agricultural labour in twentieth-century United States using the overarching category of unfree labour. In order to do so, it bridges two usually distinct historiographies by linking the phenomenon of ‘peonage’ during the New Deal, with the one of immigrant contract labour in southern Florida, under the H2 visa. Archival research on the practices at the U.S. Sugar Corporation in southern Florida illustrates this link. The article draws on Federal archives, U.S. Government proceedings, papers of political activists and legal and labour scholarship to argue: firstly, that unfree labour has been an enduring feature of agricultural labour relations at regional level during the twentieth century, through both a transmission and a transformation of practices that had their origin in the control of black emancipated labour; secondly, that the introduction of `guest workers’ under the H2 and Bracero programme meant a modernisation in the practices of unfree labour, pivoting on the lack of citizenship rights, racial discrimination, debt at home and threat of deportation; and, finally, that the failure to recognise forms of legal and economic deprivation and coercion as unfree labour has hurt the ability of the United States to enforce protection of human rights at home.
2017
Weber, Klaus
Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism] Journal Article
In: Kritische Justiz, vol. 50, iss. 2, pp. 187-194, 2017.
Tags: contemporary, convict labour, economic and social policy, neoliberalism, punishment, social control, united states
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2014
Pargas, Damian Alan
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South Book
2014.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, slavery, united states
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This book sheds light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.
2008
Weber, Klaus; Meissner, Jochen; Mücke, Ulrich
Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei [Black America. A History of Slavery] Book
2008.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, latin america, slavery, united states
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