1. Introduction: Punitive Perspectives on Labour Management Christian de Vito and Adam Fagbore; 2. Corporal and Collective Punishment for Labour Control in Mesopotamia Nicholas Reid; 3. Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt Alexandre Loktionov; 4. Punishment and the Revenue Extraction Process in Pharaonic Egypt Adam Fagbore; 5. Punishment of Workers in Early Medieval Francia Alice Rio; 6. Moving to Your Place: Guardianship, Punishment and Unfree Labour of Children and Youth in Charcas (16th–18th Centuries) Paola Revilla Orías; 7. Controlling Labour? Norms, Discourses and Practices on Labour and Punishment in Late Imperial China Claude Chevaleyre; 8. 'They Have No Property to Loose': The Impasse of Free Labour in the Lombard Silk Manufactures (1780–1810) Lorenzo Avellino; 9. Mercenary Punishment: Penal Logics in the Military Labour Market Johan Heinsen; 10. Absolute Obedience: Servants and Masters on Danish Estates in the Nineteenth Century Dorte Kook Lyngholm; 11. The Political Economy of Punishment. Slavery in Brazil and the United States in the Nineteenth Century Marcelo Rosanova Ferraro; 12. The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. Goodwin's Law and Order League, and the Blacklist of Martin Irons Chad Pearson; 13. Guarded by Convicts: The Convict Officer System in Prisons of Colonial India Michaela Dimmers.