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Hinnershitz’s groundbreaking account investigates how the prison labor system was imposed on Japanese Americans and permanent resident non-citizens of Japanese ancestry who were confined in War Relocation
Authority (WRA) incarceration camps (formerly 'internment' camps) during World War II...[A] significant contribution to the literature of Japanese American incarceration.

* Pacific Historical Review *

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Economics of Incarceration and the Blueprint for Japanese American Labor
Chapter 2. "What Good Was My Contract?" From Free to Convict Laborers
Chapter 3. "Worse Than Prisoners": Labor Resistance in the Detention Centers and Prison Camps
Chapter 4. A Prison by Any Other Name: Labor and the Poston "Colony"
Chapter 5. Redemptive Labor: Japanese American Resettlement
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 19/10/2021
      ISBN13: 9780812253368, 978-0812253368
      ISBN10: 0812253361
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Hinnershitz’s groundbreaking account investigates how the prison labor system was imposed on Japanese Americans and permanent resident non-citizens of Japanese ancestry who were confined in War Relocation
      Authority (WRA) incarceration camps (formerly 'internment' camps) during World War II...[A] significant contribution to the literature of Japanese American incarceration.

      * Pacific Historical Review *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Chapter 1. The Economics of Incarceration and the Blueprint for Japanese American Labor
      Chapter 2. "What Good Was My Contract?" From Free to Convict Laborers
      Chapter 3. "Worse Than Prisoners": Labor Resistance in the Detention Centers and Prison Camps
      Chapter 4. A Prison by Any Other Name: Labor and the Poston "Colony"
      Chapter 5. Redemptive Labor: Japanese American Resettlement
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Selected Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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