Doing time in the Depression [electronic resource] : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.
2012
HV9475.C2 B58 2012eb
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Doing time in the Depression [electronic resource] : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.
Author
Blue, Ethan.
ISBN
9780814723166 (electronic bk.)
9780814709405
9780814709412 (electronic bk.)
9780814709405
9780814709412 (electronic bk.)
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 326 p.) : ill.
Call Number
HV9475.C2 B58 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.976409043
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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American history and culture
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Table of Contents
Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration
Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons
From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations
Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards
Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment
Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment
A dark cloud would go over : death and dying
Going home.
Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons
From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations
Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards
Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment
Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment
A dark cloud would go over : death and dying
Going home.