The crisis of imprisonment protest, po litics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 - McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-; American Council of Learned Societies (Cambridge, [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.
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Keywords: Convict labor -- United States -- History; Imprisonment -- United States -- History; Punishment -- United States -- History; Criminal law -- United States -- History; Labor movement -- United States -- History; Protest movements -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government