First published in 1999, this collection of articles responds to the controversial debate on whether prison labour constitutes betterment or slave labour. The v

The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarce

This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of

Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, inclu

The politics of punishment meet labor exploitation in this new analysis