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. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that.

• Cover
• Coerced
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. “Wicked” and “Blessed”: Cultural Narratives of Coerced Labor
• 2. “Either You Do It or You’re Going to the Box”: Coercion and Compliance
• 3. “They Talk to You in Any Kind of Way”: Subjugation, Vulnerability, and the Body
• 4. “Stay Out They Way”: Agency and Resistance
• 5. “I’m Getting Ethiopia Pay for My Work”: Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony
• Conclusion
• Appendix A. The Story of This Book
• Appendix B. People qua Data
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index