Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South
- ISBN-10
- 1859840868
- ISBN-13
- 9781859840863
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Verso
- Author
- Alexander C. Lichtenstein
Description
Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War.
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