Labor and Punishment: Work in and Out of Prison

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.

Author: Erin Hatton
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780520305342
ISBN10: 0520305345
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Business & Economics | Labor | General
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity

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