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39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 927 (2015-2016)
A New Peonage: Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond

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       A New   Peonage?:   Pay,  Work,   or Go  to Jail in
 Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond


                         Noah  D. Zatz


                         CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION        ...................................................928
1. PRESENT DAY INCARCERATION  FOR NONWORK      .   .................930
  A. Probation, Parole, and Other Community Supervision ...............930
  B. Criminal Justice Debt......................        ........931
  C. Child Support Enforcement  ..........................933
II. INCARCERATION FOR NONWORK   IN THE PAST: LESSONS FROM
PEONAGE                         ....................................................935
  A. The Present Involuntariness Principle .............. .....936
  B. The Unjustified Quit Principle ................... .....937
  C. The Work-Under-Threat Principle ..........         .........937
  D. The Insufficient Alternative Principle, At Least With Regard to
  Payment           .................................... .....938
III. SEAMEN AND PEONS: THE CONSTITUTIONAL  MARGINALIZATION  OF
ROBERTSON..................................................  940
  A. The Two General Exceptions: Work for the Family or the State . 940
  B. Constructing the Seamen Exception .....................942
     1. The Public Interest in Orderly Labor........ . ..................942
     2. Labor Paternalism....................          ...........944
  C. Traditional Servitude....................         ..........947
IV. APPLYING THE THIRTEENTH  AMENDMENT   TO THE NEW  PEONAGE
                                                       ..........948
  A. The Peonage Analogy and Limits ofDebt...........   .....948



  Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. This essay benefitted
greatly from feedback provided by participants in this Symposium and from excellent research assis-
tance by Julia Solorzano.


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