Sentence examples for labor coercion from inspiring English sources

Another area of his research examines the long-term evolution of the institutions of labor coercion and land tenure in the Middle East.

I thus argue that the cotton-slavery association is not necessary but conditional on the magnitude of the price shock, the relative supplies of local and (imported) slave labor, and the existence of labor coercion tools for both local and imported slave labor.

We apply our theory to explain how the incentives for labor coercion against newly freed slaves in the postbellum U.S. South produced racially hostile attitudes among Southern whites, and how these attitudes may have been transmitted locally across generations, to present times.

The economics of labor coercion from the perspective of productive efficiency is modeled by Lagerlöf (2009) and Acemoglu and Wolitzky (2011).

Incidentally, parallel evidence of the effect of the enslavement of the American indigenous population is provided by Dell (2010), who examines a region within modern-day Peru that experienced another form of labor coercion, the mining mita.

For Puerto Rico, Bobonis and Morrow (2014) report evidence on the impact of the libreta system, a local form of labor coercion introduced in 1849 after an agreement between Spain and Britain to enforce the abolition of the slave trade.

Abstract: A central question in economic history is whether the nature of production of certain crops (such as cotton) necessitates the coercion of labor.

If the coercion of labor was brutal and unrelenting, if the era's economic development was uneven and unstable — there were several major depressions in the United States between 1819 and 1929 — these things, too, seemed only further consequences of technology.

While anti-pornography feminists generally fail to distinguish non-violent and violent pornography (and, some argue, representations of sexual violence from actual sexual violence), anti-trafficking feminists typically fail to distinguish trafficking and voluntary sex work, and treat all prostitution as a form of sexual coercion and forced labor.

We imagine this process to be one of coercion and forced labor, but K offered up his freedom to his traffickers.

Furthermore, labor relations are marked by conflict, coercion and threats, and working conditions are extremely precarious.