(definition) by Webster 1913 Mon Jan 23 2006 at 15:35:41

Con"tract sys"tem.

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.

 

© Webster 1913

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