In Global Convict Labour, nineteen contributors offer a global and comparative history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from the Antiquity to the present.

Christian G. De Vito, Ph.D. (2008), University of Leicester, is Research Associate at that university, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He has published articles and monographs on prison-, labour-, and global history.
Alex Lichtenstein, Ph.D. (1990, University of Pennsylvania), is Associate Professor at Indiana University. A historian of labour and race relations in the U.S. South, he has more recently turned his attention to the history of South Africa under apartheid.