The four approved initiatives won't force immediate changes in the states’ prisons, but they may invite legal challenges over the practice of coercing prisoners to work under threat of sanctions or loss of privileges if they refuse the work The results were celebrated among anti-slavery advocates...
It argues that this framing tends overlook the central historic role that prison labour has played in the United States' capitalist development, as well as the role of federal and state-level governments in opening up prisons to industry. It provides a typology of contemporary prison labour, and...
3 SLAVES, SLAVERY, AND THE SECULAR AGE OR, TALES OF HAUNTED SCHOLARS, LIBERATING PRISONS, EXORCISED DIVINITIES, AND IMMANENT DEVILS Edward J. Blum WHAT DID it mean and how did it feel to live as a slave within a secular age? What could the insights, experiences, and actions of women and...
One might point out that there's only one way to produce goods within the US as cheaply as they can be made in Asia: slave labor in prisons. If demand for such labor increases, you can bet "authorities" who profit will ENSURE they have enough caged slaves to keep up. http://www.ny...
"All persons in custody participating in the night shift are on a voluntary basis," said a spokeswoman at the Hong Kong's Correctional Services Department, which oversees prisons. "If they found themselves not adaptable to the night shift work, they may approach the management...
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California May Have Voted to Keep Slavery in Prisons Prisoners in California will still be forced to fight wildfires and make furniture for minimal pay, as voters appear to have rejected Proposition 6 Not So Liberal By Naomi LaChance Florida Republicans Keep Trying to Argue That Slavery Wasn’t...
Thus, prisons have been linked historically to forced labor, inhumane working conditions, reproduction of slavery-like conditions, and the imperial needs of a rising capitalist elite. Given this perspective, the trend of privatizing both prisons and prison labor may be seen not so much as a ...
The other forty-nine fiftieths are spent on unnecessary things harmful for the people, such as equipping the army, building strategical railways, forts and prisons, or supporting the priesthood and the court, and on salaries for military and civil officials, i.e. on salaries for those people ...
prisons, the prisoners rose up in resistance. In a dialectical relationship, their movement both informed and was informed by revolutionary ideas then prevalent in the broader social movements of the time, which exposed and challenged the capitalist system. At the forefront of that movement was the...