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Doing time in the depression

Blue, Ethan.

Doing time in the depression everyday life in Texas and California prisons / [electronic resource] : Ethan Blue. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (ix, 326 p. :) ill. ; - American history and culture . - American history and culture (New York University Press) UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780814723166


Prison administration--History.--Texas
Prisons--Social conditions.--Texas
Prisoners--History.--Texas
Prison administration--History.--California
Prisons--Social conditions.--California
Prisoners--History.--California


Electronic books.

HV9475.C2 / B58 2012

365/.976409043