Labor In The Correctional State
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Author | : Asatar Bair |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135898391 |
This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of Corrections, and this enslavement is used to extract surplus labor from the inmates, for which no compensation is provided. Other authors have claimed that prison labor is slavery, but no previous study has made a rigorous argument based on a systematic analysis of the flows of surplus labor which take place in the various ways prison slavery is organized in the US prison system, nor has another study systematically examined ‘prison household’ production, in which inmates produce the goods and services necessary to run the prison, nor does another work discuss state welfare in prisons, and how this affects prison labor. The study is based on empirical findings gathered by the author’s direct observation of prison factories in 28 prisons across the country. This book offers new insights into the practice of prison labor, and should be read by all serious students of American society.
Author | : Leon Fink |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822367581 |
Two and a half million men and women are under lock and key in the US prison system, including nearly 5 percent of the adult African American male population. The prison security workforce employs more people than Ford, General Motors, and Walmart combined. This issue ofLaboroffers a systematic historical and economic overview of the state that structures the working lives of millions of Americans: the correctional state. From post-slavery "convict lease" to the privatization of prison management by giant corporations, prison labour has a long history. To fill in the gaps of that history, contributors to this issue focus on the changing work experience and behaviour of prisoners, examining the labour history of the their keepers as well as the relationship between political and economic developments inside and outside prison walls. One contributor studies both prisoner and prison guard attempts toward self-organization and unionism, including a series of labour strikes among prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s, and surveys the strength of the police and prison guard organization, which has grown even as unionism has waned in the workforce as a whole. Another contributor concentrates on the political ambivalence of police and prison guard unions, as well as on their dependence on "law and order" backlash to prison reform and other welfare demands.
Author | : New York (State). Commission on Prison Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Convict labor |
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Author | : John S. Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Convict labor |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Convict labor |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : California |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Prisons |
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Author | : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Convict labor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Convict labor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |