Word: labor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: Resolved, "That the products of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in the open market...
Best general references: U. S. Comr. of Labor Report of 1886 on "Convict Labor," especially pp. 300-303. Princeton Review 1880, p. 225, Mass. Bureau of Statistics of Labor, Report...
...Competition is injurious under the contract system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Exploitation not reform sought. - (2) Work conflicts with discipline. - (8) Contractor's interest is to keep skilled workmen in prison. - (b) To the free laborer; Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics 1881, p. 228; Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics 1879, p. 191. (1) Undue concentration of trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside...
...Competition is excessively injurious under the lease system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Morals, all are herded together. - (2) All pretense of reform is given up. - (b) To outside competitors. - (1) Odium of system makes labor cheap. - (2) Nature of labor concentrates it on certain occupations, e.g., mining. - Tennessee troubles. - (c) To the peace of the State. - Ibid...
Question: "Resolved, That the products of prison labor should be allowed to compete in the open market...