Author: Leon Fink
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780822367581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
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.
Labor in the Correctional State
Prison Labor in the United States
Author: Asatar Bair
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135898391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135898391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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.
Report of the State Commission on Prison Labor
Author: New York (State). Commission on Prison Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Prison Labor
Author: John S. Perry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Federal and State Laws Relating to Convict Labor
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Prison Labor in the United States, 1940
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Laws Relating to Prison Labor in the United States as of July 1, 1933
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The Prison Labor Problem in Maryland
Author: United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Prison Labor Problem in Utah
Author: United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Prison Labor Problem in Oklahoma
Author: United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description