TY  - GEN
AU  -  McLennan, Rebecca M.,
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  The crisis of imprisonment: protest, po litics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 
T2  -  Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
PY  - 2008///
CY  -  Cambridge, [U.K.],  New York
PB  -  Cambridge University Press
KW  -  Convict labor
KW  -  United States
KW  -  History
KW  -  Imprisonment
KW  -  Punishment
KW  -  Criminal law
KW  -  Labor movement
KW  -  Protest movements
KW  -  Politics and government
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index;  Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment -- Strains of servitud e : legal punishment in the early republic -- Due convictions : contrac tual penal servitude and its discontents, 1818-1865 -- Commerce upon th e throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America -- Discip lining the state, civilizing the market : the campaign to abolish contr act prison labor -- A model servitude : prison reform in the early Prog ressive Era -- Uses of the state : the dialectics of penal reform in ea rly progressive New York -- American Bastille : Sing Sing and the polit ical crisis of imprisonment -- Changing the subject : the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high Progressive Era -- Laboratory of social j ustice : the new penologists at Sing Sing, 1915-1917 -- Punishment with out labor : towards the modern penal state -- Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2010;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  ([Cambrid ge studies in American law and society]);  Mode of access: Intranet
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07820
ER  -