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Disability servitude : from peonage to poverty /
Disability Servitude traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage. For over a century, public and private institutions across the country relied on the unpaid, forced labor of their residents and patients in order to operate. This book describes the work they performed, in some cases for t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Institutionalized Peonage and Involuntary Servitude; 3 Fighting Forest Fires: The Lost Heritage of Competence and Contribution; 4 The Peonage Cases; 5 The Aftermath; 6 The Peculiar Institution of Subminimum Wage; 7 Institutional Peonage and Involuntary Servitude in Segregated "Employment" Settings; 8 Perpetuation of Peonage and Poverty in the Twenty-first Century; 9 Conclusions: Stone Buildings and Stone Walls; Notes; References; Index.