One of the closest analogies we have today for indentureship is in the
scholarship practice of most modern universities. Nearly all modern Ph.D.
programs consider graduate students to be a neverending supply of nearly free
labor, assisting staff and professors in various research projects, in return
for course credit and thesis support.

Stay tuned. Next up we'll talk about the transactional nature of work.

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Editor's note: David Gewirtz is Editor-in-Chief, ZATZ Magazines, including
OutlookPower Magazine. He is a leading Presidential scholar specializing in
White House email. He is a member of FBI InfraGard, the Cyberterrorism Advisor
for the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals,
a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, and has
been a guest commentator for the Nieman Watchdog of the Nieman Foundation for
Journalism at Harvard University. He is a faculty member at the University of
California, Berkeley extension, a recipient of the Sigma Xi Research Award in
Engineering and was a candidate for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Letters.