Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons
Author:   Ethan Blue
Publisher:   New York University Press
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9780814709405


Pages:   335
Publication Date:   01 February 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ethan Blue
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780814709405


ISBN 10:   0814709400
Pages:   335
Publication Date:   01 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Of Bodies and Borders: The Demography of Incarceration 2 Work in the Walled City: Labor and Discipline in California's Prisons 3 From Can See to Can't: Agricultural Labor and Industrial Reform on Texas Penal Plantations 4 Shifting Markets of Power: Building Tenders, Con Bosses, Queens, and Guards 5 Thirty Minutes behind the Walls: Prison Radio and the Popular Culture of Punishment 6 Sport and Celebration in the Popular Culture of Punishment 7 A Dark Cloud Would Go Over: Death and Dying 8 Going Home Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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""Illuminates the penological history of the New Deal Era, and charts the emergence of the modern carceral state. Blue's work makes a truly unique contribution to the internal history of prison discipline and prison culture. No other historian has taken readers as far behind the walls as he does."" Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University


Illuminates the penological history of the New Deal Era, and charts the emergence of the modern carceral state. Blue's work makes a truly unique contribution to the internal history of prison discipline and prison culture. No other historian has taken readers as far behind the walls as he does. Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University


"""Illuminates the penological history of the New Deal Era, and charts the emergence of the modern carceral state. Blue's work makes a truly unique contribution to the internal history of prison discipline and prison culture. No other historian has taken readers as far behind the walls as he does."" Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University"


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Ethan Blue is Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.

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