Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Broschiertes Buch

Golden Gulag

Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Beschreibung

Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity.

Autor

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States.

Produktdetails

• American Crossroads
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780520242012
• ISBN-10: 0520242017
• Artikelnr.: 22061737