Labor and Punishment

"Well written and full of informative nuggets."--Jeff Manza, Department of Sociology, New York University "This is a novel approach to understanding the carceral state and fills an important gap in this literature. The work that Erin Hatton is doing in this area stands to make an enormous contribution. We already know the carceral state is growing, and we know about the ways in which it is subsidized by private industry. The real value of Labor and Punishment is that it will highlight not just these connections but how they have implications for the way work is done in the modern era."--Adia Harvey Wingfield, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis