Doing time in the Depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons

Doing time in the Depression everyday life in Texas and California prisons

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 1930's as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blue, Ethan (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press c2012.
New York, NY : [2012]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:American history and culture.
Materias:
Prisoners > California > History.
Prisons > California > Social conditions.
Prison administration > California > History.
Prisoners > Texas > History.
Prisons > Texas > Social conditions.
Prison administration > Texas > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009810660006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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