Golden Gulag Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Name: Golden Gulag Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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ISBN: 9780520242012

ISBN-10: 0520242017

ISBN-13: 9780520242012

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world."Golden Gulagprovides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces from the global to the local conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Prologue: The Bus



Introduction



The California Political Economy



The Prison Fix



Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism



Mothers Reclaiming Our Children



What Is to Be Done?


Epilogue: Another Bus


Notes


Bibliography and References


Index