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RE-THINKING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUNISHMENT
PERSPECTIVES ON POST-FORDISM AND PENAL POLITICS |
| By: |
Alessandro de Giorgi, Professor David Nelken |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754626105 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754626107 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 May, 2006 |
| Series: |
Advances in Criminology |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Description: |
Investigates the emergence of a modern flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies. The penal politics can be seen as part of a broader project to control this labour force, with far-reaching effects on the role of the prison and punitive strategies in general. |
| Synopsis: |
The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'. However, global processes of transformation have revolutionized industrial capitalism since the early 1970s, thus configuring a post-Fordist system of production. In this book, the author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies. Current penal politics can be seen as part of a broader project to control this labour force, with far-reaching effects on the role of the prison and punitive strategies in general. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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