Download or read book Prison Labor in the United States written by Asatar Bair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Prison Labor written by John S. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Prison Labor on U S Government Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Labor in the United States 1940 written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prison Labor Problem in Texas written by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the transmittal letter to the President on page I: "We herewith submit our seventh report under Executive Order No. 7194, creating the Prison Industries Reorganization Administration. This survey of the Texas Prison System was made at the request of the Texas Prison Board, and our findings and recommendations meet with the approval of the Board and of Governor James V. Allred. The report is confined to certain specific phases of the prison problem in Texas, namely, industrial and training activities, housing, the present classification experiment, and probation and parole methods."
Download or read book American Prison written by Shane Bauer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
Download or read book Prison Labor Capitalism Without Markets written by Joseph Parampathu and published by Center for a Stateless Society. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison labor remains a paradox in many ways. Simultaneously sparsely studied or recorded, and ubiquitous; derided by labor unions and free workers as unfair competition and lauded by businesses as the only way to insource labor at the globalized price point; rehabilitating prisoners through the virtue of work, while punishing them through that same work— prisons are in many ways the ultimate reflection of capitalism with the veneer of smiling faces removed. Prisoners work not to avoid starving or to have a place to sleep, but because it is a requirement of their existence. In the United States, all federal inmates must work, and those who refuse face severe penalties including being charged exorbitant sums to reimburse the government for the pleasure of being incarcerated. Prison labor remains anomalous to labor under traditional market forces, but exists within, and remains largely dominated by, the larger economies and politics that govern its existence. The prison is the final destination for the person-become-commodity that is the poor laborer. Those unable to afford the offramps to a prison sentence end up serving time and, once there, the institution of the prison attempts to keep them as an employee for life. The unsavory nature of prison labor as an economic force has relegated prison labor to only the most dangerous and unwanted jobs in existence, for wages far below market value, and insulated from any claims to benefits, time-off, or workplace safety protocols. Politically, the prison labor industry in the United States has found its niche in attempting to return outsourced jobs to the domestic market, in effect, moving the colonies of American empire right into its own backyard. Without the economic differential power of sweatshop wages in low-income countries, prison wages become only marginally better than no wages, particularly when factoring in the many deductions that prisons apply for court fees, supervision costs, and even disciplinary functions. While these economic factors play a defining role in determining the realities of prison labor, they exist within a larger philosophy of prison life that is, ultimately, capitalistic. Even where the economics of prison labor bears literal resemblance to market demands, prison labor remains a necessary component of the philosophy of capital’s primacy over the labor pool. Insulated from the market, the totalitarian prison becomes the end-stage of capitalism; with contradictions uninhibited by class conflict and protected from the bargaining power of labor, prison work is the harbinger of what “free” work becomes as the capitalist fantasy continues.
Download or read book Report of the State Commission on Prison Labor written by New York (State). Commission on Prison Labor and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prison Labor Problem in Utah written by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Convict Labor written by United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prison Labor Problem in West Virginia written by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prison Labor Problem in Delaware written by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Employ Convict Labor for the Production of War Supplies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Should Prisoners Work written by Louis Newton Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prison Labor Problem in Georgia written by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Convict Labor written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prison Labor Problem in New Mexico written by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
