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Book SynopsisThe 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 disciplineand a growing onethat 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.
Trade Review"Labor and Punishment is an imminently useful resource for students and researchers."
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"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 *
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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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
