Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remedy for the evils of the contract system- a system of hand labor on State account.- Report of U. S. Commissioner of Labor for 1886, pp. 327, 335-6, 347, 353, 359, 389, 396; Report of Michigan Bureau of Statistics for 1887, pp. 216, 219, 141; Report of Iowa Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...contract system is most remunerative to the State.- Report of U. S. Commissioner of Labor, 1886, p. 372; N. Y. Nation...
...Reform is impossible without reference to the individual wants of the different men. Under the contract system there is no classification; the convicts are brought together indiscriminately...
...contract system brings the competition of convict labor with outside industries to a maximum point of severity.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor...
...Under the contract system the burden of supporting the convicts is unfairly distributed.- Report of the U. S. Labor Commissioner...