Introduction (Jessica R. Pliley and John Mckiernan-González) I. Troubling Contracts: Limiting Worker Mobility in the Labor Market 1. Constructing Coercion: Labor Regimes and Sex Workers at the US-Mexico Borderlands (Erik Bernardino) 2. Cotton's Paradise: Coerced Labor and the Right to Live During the Great Depression in El Paso, Texas, 1931-1933 (Yolanda Chávez Leyva) 3. "We Never Had No Payday Here": Folk Song, Forced Labor and the Carceral State in Texas (Jason Mellard) 4. Mario Cantú and the Struggle Against Unfree Labor in San Antonio, Tejas, and Mexico, 1969-1984 (Jerry González) II. Imprisoning Housework: (Re)producing Unfreedom 5.

The Curse of Cane: Sugar, Race, and the Bittersweet Legacy of Prison Segregation in Texas, 1871-1926 (Jermaine Thibodeaux) 6. The Carceral Rescue Industry: World War I-Era Anti-Prostitution Campaigns in Texas (Ánh Adams and Jessica R. Pliley) 7. Native Women and Unfree Labor: The Haskell Indian Boarding School Experience (Bethany Eby) 8. "Nobody Paid Me Anything": Forced Labor in California Institutions for the Feebleminded (Natalie Lira) Epilogue: Chasing (and Being Chased by) Slavery--A Borderlands Journey (Luis C. de Baca) Acknowledgments Index.