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Contract system   Listen
noun
Contract system  n.  
1.
The sweating system.
2.
The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.






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... Contract system of employing convict labor ought to be abolished. Brookings, p. 165: Briefs and references.—C. L. of P. ...
— Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index - Second Edition • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh



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