Peonage

• Peonage

• Peonage in New Orleans.

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• The Progressive
• Vol. 72 Nbr. 8, August 2008

• 18 USC 1581 - Sec. 1581. Peonage; obstructing enforcement

• U.S. Code - Title 18: Crimes and Criminal Procedure

• Peonage

Peonage is a system of debt bondage, in which a laborer is bound to personal service in order to work off an obligation to pay money...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• KA-PU

• Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

, by Elizabeth Dore, is reviewed.

• Business History Review
• Vol. 81 Nbr. 2, July 2007

• 18 USC 1590 - Sec. 1590. Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor

• U.S. Code - Title 18: Crimes and Criminal Procedure

• Prisons, Torture, Race: On Angela Y. Davis's Abolitionism

In this violent act of juridification, in which the force of the law establishes a new order, Black life was reduced to bare existence, what Giorgio Agamben called homo sacer.16 As DuBois put it: The wage [labor power] of the Negro worker, despite the war amendments, was to be reduced to the level of bare subsistence by taxation, peonage, caste, and every method of discrimination.

• Philosophy Today
• Nbr. 50, January 2006

• 18 USC 1592 - Sec. 1592. Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor

• U.S. Code - Title 18: Crimes and Criminal Procedure

• Thirteenth Amendment: Slavery And Involuntary Servitude

...If Mexican peonage or the Chinese coolie labor system shall develop s...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• 42 USC 1994 - Sec. 1994. Peonage abolished

• US Code - Title 42: The Public Health and Welfare

• The Louisiana Legislature s Response to SWAT 24 Shreveport Bossier, Inc. v. Bond: The Noncompete Pendulum Swings Toward Debt Peonage. Will the Judiciary s Answer Achieve the Fragile Employer-Employee Balance?

Introduction I. Background: Louisiana's Employment Power Struggles A. Historical Summary of Louisiana Statutory Law on Noncompetition Agreements 1. The 1962 Amendment and Its Judicial Gloss 2. The 1989 Amendment: Predictability Becomes Paramount B. SWAT 24's Appellate Predecessors 1. The Second Circuit's Approach 2. The Third and Fourth Circuits' Approach C. SWAT 24 Shreveport Bossier, Inc. v. Bond 1. The Majority Opinion 2. Justice Traylor's Dissent II. The Amendment: Honorable Intentions With A Grievous Potentiality A. The Well-Meaning Legislature 1. The Committee Meeting 2. Sausage and Law B. The Danger to Employee Liberty III. Tenable Judicial Responses A. Reviving Pre-SWAT 24 Decisions B. The Legitimate Business Interest Requirement: A Proven Model 1. The National Standard and Its ...

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 64-3, April 2004