convict labor system — noun : a plan or system for utilizing convict labor often authorized by law compare contract system, lease system, piece price system, public account system, public works and ways system, state use system … Useful english dictionary
convict labor contract — A contract, such as the statutes of some states have authorized, under which convicts or persons imprisoned in jails under conviction of crime are hired out. 41 Am J1st Pris & P §30 … Ballentine's law dictionary
Convict lease — Convict leasing was a system of penal labor practiced in the Southern United States, beginning with the emancipation of slaves at the end of the American Civil War in 1865, peaking around 1880, and ending in the last state, Alabama, in 1928.… … Wikipedia
Labor federation competition in the United States — A labor federation is a group of unions or labor organizations that are in some sense coordinated. The terminology used to identify such organizations grows out of usage, and has sometimes been imprecise. For example, nationals are sometimes… … Wikipedia
convict goods — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun plural Etymology: convict (III) : goods produced by convict labor … Useful english dictionary
convict lease — Another term for convict labor contract … Ballentine's law dictionary
Convict assignment — was the practice used in many penal colonies of assigning convicts to work for private individuals. Contemporary abolitionists characterised the practice as virtual slavery, and some, but by no means all, latter day historians have agreed with… … Wikipedia
convict — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ escaped CONVICT + NOUN ▪ labour/labor (esp. AmE) {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb ADVERB ▪ wrongfully … Collocations dictionary
convict — Noun: A person who by reason of having been convicted of a crime has forfeited for a certain time his liberty or right of locomotion and who is by law subject to confinement and labor for a specified time. 41 Am J1st Pris & P § 2. One who is… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Knights of Labor — The Great Seal of the Knights of Labor The Knights of Labor (K of L) (officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor ) was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was … Wikipedia
