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Author:
Blue, Ethan.
Title:
Doing time in the depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Prisoners--California--History.
Prisons--California--Social conditions.
Prison administration--California--History.
Prisoners--Texas--History.
Prisons--Texas--Social conditions.
Prison administration--Texas--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
American history and culture.
ISBN:
0814723160 (ebook)
9780814723166 (ebook)
0814709419 (ebook)
9780814709412 (ebook)
0814709400 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814709405 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)724667181
LCCN:
2011033399
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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