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chain gang see convict labor .
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Private Employment of Prison Labor*
Magazine article from: Journal of Private Enterprise; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...preferable to alternative uses or non-use of convict labor. Trade unions attacked the system for...to competition from firms employing convict labor; and reformers argued that private...The economics of privately employing convict labor is closely related to slavery and indentured...
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Prison Labor: Back to Slavery
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 4/1/1995; ; 615 words
; ...Solidarity, suggests that programs for convict labor may represent slave labor for prisoners...the company to move and substitute convict labor for free labor by offering $1 a year...historical perspective, noting that convict labor after the Civil War made Black people...
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Prison Labor Is a Growth Industry.
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 5/24/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...are reaping substantial profits from convict labor. For example, some companies promise...of prisoners in their cells. Where convict labor is a factor, the companies also need...incarceration. For instance, volunteers for convict labor may be earning only minimum wage, but...
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A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896...militia in an effort to end the use of convict labor in the mines. Although overshadowed...Coal company officials, who employed convict labor mainly because it gave them leverage...
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`BONDAGE' FOCUSES ON INDENTURED SERVITUDE.(Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 4/1/1999; 580 words
; ...information. ``Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776,'' by Abbot Emerson Smith, was first...narrative historical account of indentured servitude and convict labor in the American colonies, and a fascinating read. Divided...
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Ban on parts made by convicts.(75 YEARS AGO)
Magazine article from: Music Trades; 5/1/2007; 52 words
; ...Commissioner of Customs to prohibit the importation of convict-made instrument parts. Previous investigations had revealed that convict labor was being used to manufacture parts at Poissy, France which were also supplied to several clarinet and flute makers in nearby...
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The Labor of Prisoners
Magazine article from: Peacework; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...state for their labor. By the 1920s, convict labor yielded $75,622,983 a year. Out of...free labor suffered from the lease of convict labor. It took another 20 years to abolish...in all fifty states. The practice of convict labor never ceased, it changed forms. From...
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MONTANA JUSTICE
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History; 1/1/2005; ; 550 words
; ...Looked at from a historian's vantage point, the contractors' use of convict labor becomes a confusing issue. The state granted Conley and McTague permission to use convict labor and, as contractors, they presumably intended to profit from their...
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Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...treatment of Alabama freedmen and the eventual utilization of convict labor in the coal mines, industry and agriculture at every juncture...allowed it to collect nearly $50,000 in fees every year. Convict labor became a reliable means of enriching the leasing companies...
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Look for the prison label
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 5/21/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...recently tried to draw attention to the latest wrinkle in convict labor: state prisons have begun encouraging private corporations...Under pressure from unions and businesses undercut by unpaid convict labor, however, Congress passed a series of laws essentially forbidding...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG USA, 1932 Director: Mervyn LeRoy...autobiography I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang by Robert E. Burns; photography...Brown Holmes, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , edited by John E. O'Connor, Madison...
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chain gang
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
chain gang • n. a group of convicts chained together while working outside the prison.
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gang
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
gang 1 / ga ng / • n. 1. an organized group of criminals...doing manual work: ninety days of hard labor on the road gang. 2. a set of switches, sockets, or other electrical or mechanical devices grouped together. • v. 1. [ intr. ] ( gang together ) (of a number of people) form a group or ...
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Leadbelly
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...songs are a survival of the earliest African-American music (see jazz ). He was jailed in 1918 for murder and put on a chain gang; he was pardoned in 1925 but was again put in jail for attempted murder (1930-34) and for assault (1939-40). The folklorist...
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Darryl Francis Zanuck
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and responsible for such other classics as Little Caesar (1930), The Public Enemy (1931), and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). In 1933 Zanuck cofounded Twentieth Century Films and after it merged (1935) with Fox he became head of production...
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