Coerced : work under threat of punishment /
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of thes...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvwcjhz7 |
| Summary: | What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of ""employment"" reigns supreme--one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780520973404 0520973402 9780520305397 0520305396 9780520305410 0520305418 |