TY - GEN N2 - As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and around the world: overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis. Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California's penal systems. AB - As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and around the world: overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis. Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California's penal systems. T1 - Doing time in the Depressioneveryday life in Texas and California prisons / DA - c2012. CY - New York : AU - Blue, Ethan. CN - Ebrary CN - HV9475.C2 PB - New York University Press, PP - New York : PY - c2012. ID - 449299 KW - Prisoners KW - Prisons KW - Prison administration KW - Prisoners KW - Prisons KW - Prison administration SN - 9780814723166 (electronic bk.) TI - Doing time in the Depressioneveryday life in Texas and California prisons / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865392 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865392 ER -