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  2. Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prison labor is legal under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. [1] Prison labor in the U.S. generates significant economic output. [2] Incarcerated workers provide services valued at $9 billion annually and produce over $2 billion in goods.

  3. Freedmen's Bureau - Wikipedia

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    Bureau agents did negotiate labor contracts, build schools and hospitals, and aid freedmen, but they struggled against the violence of the oppressive environment. [ 33 ] In addition to internal parish problems, this area was reportedly invaded by insurgents from Arkansas, described as Desperadoes by the Bureau agent in 1868. [ 34 ]

  4. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    After the Declaration of Independence, slavery in the US was progressively abolished in the north, but only finished by the 13th Amendment in 1865 near the end of the American Civil War. Modern US labor law mostly comes from statutes passed between 1935 and 1974, and changing interpretations of the US Supreme Court. [11]

  5. Convict leasing - Wikipedia

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    The constitutional basis for convict leasing is that the 1865 Thirteenth Amendment, while abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude generally, permits it as a punishment for crime. The purpose of the practice of convict leasing was to provide financial profits to the lessees, and to the government agencies that sold convict labor to the ...

  6. 13th Amendment is least cited of Reconstruction revisions ...

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    Harper's Weekly cover showing the scene in the House on the passage of the 13th amendment to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified ...

  7. Indentured servitude - Wikipedia

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    Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract called an "indenture", may be entered voluntarily for a prepaid lump sum, as payment for some good or service (e.g. travel), purported eventual compensation, or debt repayment.

  8. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court upholds "yellow dog" contracts, which forbid membership in labor unions. 1916 (United States) U.S. Congress passed the Federal Child Labor Law, which was later ruled unconstitutional. [26] 1916 (United States) U.S. Congress passed the Adamson Act, which established an eight-hour workday for railroad workers. [26] 1916 (United ...

  9. History of labor law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 U.S. 1 (1937) declaring the NLRA 1935 to be constitutional; Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, 307 U.S. 496 (1939) held to be a violation of the First Amendment for the NJ mayor to shut down trade union CIO meetings because he thought they were "communist"