Doing time in the depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

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

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blue, Ethan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Colección:American history and culture.
Temas:
Prisoners > California > History.
Prisons > California > Social conditions.
Prison administration > California > History.
Prisoners > Texas > History.
Prisons > Texas > Social conditions.
Prison administration > Texas > History.
Prisonniers > Californie > Histoire.
Prisons > Californie > Conditions sociales.
Prisons > Administration > Californie > Histoire.
Prisonniers > Texas > Histoire.
Prisons > Texas > Conditions sociales.
Prisons > Administration > Texas > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Prison administration.
Prisoners.
Strafvollzug
Alltag
California.
Texas.
Texas
Kalifornien
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

Ejemplares similares