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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Paperback. Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 412 pages, 8 line illustrations, 1 map, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486. Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Series: American Crossroads. 412 pages, 8 line illustrations, 1 map, 10 tables. Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKVP1. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 25. Weight: 478.
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 Gulag" provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to 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 ... Read more
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 Gulag" provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
412
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
American Crossroads
Condition
New
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242012
SKU
V9780520242012
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About Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States.
Reviews for Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
"A magnificent analysis of the political economy of super-incarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons." - Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear "Golden Gulag is a deeply necessary book for our times. Gilmore digs beneath the easy answers to the more troubling causes of a political consensus that prisons are the only solution to all urban and ... Read more