Overview

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.

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Author:   Erin Hatton
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520305335

ISBN 10:   0520305337
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   25 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Erin Hatton 1. Working Behind Bars: Prison Labor in America  Erin Hatton 2. From Extraction to Repression: Prison Labor, Prison Finance, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in North Carolina  Amanda Bell Hughett 3. The Political Economy of Work in ICE Custody: Theorizing Mass Incarceration and For-Profit Prisons Jacqueline Stevens 4. The Carceral Labor Continuum: Beyond the Prison Labor/Free Labor Divide Noah D. Zatz 5. Held in Abeyance: Labor Therapy and Surrogate Livelihoods in Puerto Rican Therapeutic Communities Caroline M. Parker 6. ""You Put Up with Anything"": On the Vulnerability and Exploitability of Formerly Incarcerated Workers  Gretchen Purser 7. Working Reentry: Gender, Carceral Precarity, and Post-incarceration Geographies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Anne Bonds Conclusion  Philip Goodman List of Contributors  Index"

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"""Labor and Punishment is an imminently useful resource for students and researchers.""   * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books * ""Hatton…edits and contributes to this valuable collection exploring the particular condition of labor during and after imprisonment. . . .These timely, often polemical studies lead to a dour pronouncement: no institution or system cited is anywhere close to doing it right."" * CHOICE * ""Labor and Punishment offers to the reader a platform to question whether work must always be synonymous with punishment, and what we, as a society, can do to ensure that it is instead an experience defined by meaning and dignity."" * Exertions *"

Labor and Punishment is an imminently useful resource for students and researchers. * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books *

Author Information

Erin Hatton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo in New York. She is the author of Coerced. 

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