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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Audiobook, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Play Audiobook Sample

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Audiobook

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Audiobook, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Machelle Williams Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666101980

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

51:53 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:42 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

36:45 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California's economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state's commitment to prison expansion.

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