[lbo-talk] guard labor

[Michael Yates]

Here is a table:
This article has a table in it for guard labor from 1890 to 2002, for the US:
http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/bilancini/crisi/guardLabor

This provides more recent number:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/one-nation-under-guard/
Both are co-authored by Sam Bowles, who has written a great deal about this.
David Gordon died in 1996, so his data are going to be dated.