The convict lease system rationally accelerated Southern industrialization.

Evidence

Lichtenstein’s major argument is that the convict lease was not an irrational regression; it was not primarily a throwback to precapitalist modes of production. Rather, it was a most efficient and most rational deployment of racist strategies to swiftly achieve industrialization in the South. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 85

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Convict leasing was a rational tool of Southern industrialization, not a precapitalist throwback; Armed labor revolts, not reform sentiment, ended convict leasing in the South — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3473; Southern convict-leasing camps killed convicts at catastrophic rates — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3468

Related

• Armed labor revolts, not reform sentiment, ended convict leasing in the South (similarity 0.85)
• Southern convict-leasing camps killed convicts at catastrophic rates (similarity 0.84)
• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force (similarity 0.81)
• Convicted prisoners were leased to private companies to rebuild the postwar South (similarity 0.80)
• The prison boom was a way to concentrate and manage a capitalist human surplus (similarity 0.78)
• Convict leasing carried the same workforce seamlessly from slavery into railroad construction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Convict leasing was a rational tool of Southern industrialization, not a precapitalist throwback #corroborates (0.90)