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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Prison Labor"”.
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Conflicting theories in the employment of prison labor and resources
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Economics, 1951
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Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
… yet it accounts for 25% of the world’s prisoners. Not only does the United States mercilessly incarcerate its own citizens, it disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations …
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Consumer demand for labor attributes in food products: The case of prison labor in milk
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Fireline, divided : labor representation of unionized and incarcerated firefighters in California's wildlands
… are incarcerated people working in a prison labor program called the Conservation Camp Program at small, rural prisons known as "fire camps." There are 43 fire camps throughout the state that house up to 4,500 incarcerated people and are largely co-managed by the California Department …
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Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture
… the institution it sustained. Due to the rise in prison privatization and the common practice of leasing prison labor to corporations while paying the offenders a menial fee, the American prison industry is operating more and more like slave fortresses. Spatially, the spaces are particularly …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
… space, the gendered transformation of intimate labor, and the re-calibration of state violence. With the advent of autonomous rule, the Balkan capitals were reconstructed as “European” cities through dispossession, real-estate speculation and municipal corruption. For architects, merchant …
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The Great Appalachian Flood of 1977: Prisoners, Labor, and Community Perceptions in Wise, Virginia
… the 1977 flood exemplifies a growing reliance on prison laborers in central Appalachia specifically, and rural America more generally. The majority of residential community members in Wise expressed NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) attitudes toward the prison facility and incarcerated population at Unit …