Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment – LPE Project

Status Coercion in the Context of Human Trafficking and Forced Labor

Ann Sarnak — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Anti-trafficking laws and policies in the United States — in particular, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) — define certain types of coerced work as unlawful forced labor. Paradoxically, the TVPA’s operation also enables status coercion by casting trafficked workers as either “victims” or “criminals” once they are removed from involuntary servitude. The prevailing anti-trafficking legal regime subjects these workers, especially immigrant workers of color, to coercive conditions that persist in the criminal and immigration enforcement systems.

Just Do It: Sport, the Culture of Punishment, and Status Coercion

Ann Sarnak — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:04:00 +0000

This post introduces a symposium on Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** In Coerced, Erin Hatton describes the status coercion of colleges athletes and the contradictions perceived in their “privileged” positions on university campuses. For example, Hatton notes how NCAA and University officials use language to construct a narrative of privilege.

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Status As Sword

Ann Sarnak — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:04:00 +0000

This post continues a symposium on Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** Adequate workplace regulation requires a 360° accounting of employer power. Erin Hatton’s illuminating treatment of how economic coercion interacts with workers’ social “status” to escalate managerial dominance gets us much closer to completing the circle. She is also right that...

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Labor Coercion and the Status/Economy Distinction

James Brandt — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:01:00 +0000

This post continues a symposium on Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** Erin Hatton’s outstanding book Coerced provides rich empirical grounding and generative theoretical framing for LPE analysis. The book’s core concept, “status coercion,” provides the glue that binds together four seemingly disparate work structures: prison labor...

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Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment

Ann Sarnak — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:03:00 +0000

This post introduces a symposium on Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** Scholars of work and labor do not often analyze labor coercion these days. It is considered a bit passé, and is simply taken as a given that economic coercion undergirds labor relations in capitalist economies. With this implicit foundation in place, the primary story of work and...

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