Orange-collar labor : work and inequality in prison /

"In addition to holding nearly a quarter of the world's legal captives, the United States puts them to work. Close to two-thirds of those held in state prisons hold some sort of job within their institution. For them, prison is not only a place of punishment, but a workplace as well. Yet,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibson-Light, Michael (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Convict labor > United States. Prison industries > United States. Equality > United States. Social stratification. Industries en milieu carcéral > États-Unis. Stratification sociale. social stratification. Convict labor Equality Prison industries United States Social services & welfare, criminology. True Crime. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Prison Labor and Stratification
2. It's Like Its Own City: The Prison Employment System
3. Capitals and Punishment: The Sorting of Working Prisoners
4. There's Rules in Prison: Penal Labor as Racialized and Racializing
5. I Owe My Soul to the Commissary Store: Economic Stratification on the Inside
6. The Dignity of Working Prisoners: Overcoming the Pains of Penal Labor
7. Conclusion: Punishment and Labor under Neoliberal Penology
Appendix: Conducting and Completing Prison Research.