Punitive labor and enslavement in the Roman bakery

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3919474
AutoresJared Benton (Art, Old Dominion University College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA), Jared T Benton (Old Dominion University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen55
Número1
Páginas12-24
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2024.2362168
OpenAlexW4400210867
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas39

The recent discovery of a bakery in the Casa Rustio Vero at Pompeii has revived a discussion about forced labor and punitive incarceration in Roman-era bakeries. The bakery was hidden in the back of the house and had bars on windows between the house and the bakery, restricting access into or out of the bakery. The excavators interpreted it as a 'prison bakery'. The nature of forced labor in Roman bakeries is, in fact, as complicated as the actual bakeries themselves which vary from city to city and workshop to workshop. This paper explores the evidence, both textual and archaeological, for forced labor, punitive labor, and enslavement in bakeries, imagining how those different phenomena might graft onto bakeries employing varying sorts of production models

Archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Punitive damages · Sociology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law