Abolition labor: the fight to end prison slavery
"Abolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end forced labor, much of it unpaid, in American prisons. It draws on interviews with formerly incarcerated persons in Alabama, Texas, Georgia and New York to give a more holistic picture of these work conditions, and it covers the new prison...
| Outros títulos: | Fight to end prison slavery |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Tipo de documento: | Print Livro |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Serviço de pedido Subito: | Pedir agora. |
| Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado em: |
New York London
OR Books
2024
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| Em: | Ano: 2024 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
USA
/ Execução da pena
/ Centro de detenção
/ Detento
/ Trabalho
/ Abolicionismo (Criminologia)
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| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Prisonniers - Droits - États-Unis
B Prisonniers - Violence envers - États-Unis B Convict labor B United States B Prisoners Violence against (United States) B Prisoners Civil rights (United States) B Convict labor (United States) B Prisoners - Civil rights B Prisoners |
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| Resumo: | "Abolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end forced labor, much of it unpaid, in American prisons. It draws on interviews with formerly incarcerated persons in Alabama, Texas, Georgia and New York to give a more holistic picture of these work conditions, and it covers the new prisoner rights movement that began with system-wide work strikes involving more than 50,000 people in the 2010s. Incarcerated people work for penny wages (15 cents an hour is not unusual), and, in several states, for nothing at all, as cooks, dishwashers, janitors, groundskeepers, barbers, painters, or plumbers; in laundries, kitchens, factories, and hospitals. They provide vital public services such as repairing roads, fighting wildfires, or clearing debris after hurricanes. They manufacture products like office furniture, mattresses, license plates, dentures, glasses, traffic signs, garbage cans, athletic equipment, and uniforms. And they harvest crops, work as welders and carpenters, and labor in meat and poultry processing plants. Abolition Labor provides a wealth of insights into what has become a vast underground economy. It draws connections between the risky trade forced on prisoners who hustle to survive on the inside and the precarious economy on the outside. And it argues that, far from being quarantined off from society, prisons and their forced work regime have a sizable impact on the economic and social lives of millions of American households."-- |
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| Descrição do item: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Descrição Física: | viii, 289 Seiten, 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-68219-398-3 |
