"What do prisoner workers, 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. [Her book] 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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"What do prisoner workers, 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. [Her book] 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 coercion--as well as precarity--is a defining feature of work in America today"--Provided by publisher.
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