Labor and Punishment : Work in and Out of Prison

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Title: Labor and Punishment : Work in and Out of Prison
Description: The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarceration and the criminal justice system are profoundly implicated in the production and reproduction of the low-wage “exploitable” precariat, both within and beyond prison walls. The carceral state is a regime of labor discipline—and a growing one—that extends far beyond its own inmate labor. This regime not only molds inmates into compliant workers willing and expected to accept any “bad” job upon release but also compels many Americans to work in such jobs under threat of incarceration, all the while bolstering their “exploitability” and socioeconomic marginality. Contributors include Anne Bonds, Philip Goodman, Amanda Bell Hughett, Caroline M. Parker, Gretchen Purser, Jacqueline Stevens, and Noah D. Zatz.
Authors: Erin Hatton
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Ex-convicts--Employment--United States, Prisoners--Employment--United States, Precarious employment--United States, Convict labor--United States
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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