RT Book
T1 Abolition labor: the fight to end prison slavery
A1 Ross, Andrew 1956-
A1 Bardelli, Tommaso
A1 Thomas, Aiyuba
A2 Bardelli, Tommaso
A2 Thomas, Aiyuba
LA English
PP New York London
PB OR Books
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1917562845
AB "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."--
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN HV8925
SN 978-1-68219-398-3
K1 Convict labor : United States
K1 Prisoners : Violence against : United States
K1 Prisoners : Civil rights : United States
K1 Prisonniers - Violence envers - États-Unis
K1 Prisonniers - Droits - États-Unis
K1 Convict labor
K1 Prisoners
K1 Prisoners - Civil rights
K1 United States
K1 USA : Strafvollzug : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Strafgefangener : Arbeit : Abolitionismus : Kriminologie