Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment : Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
ISBN-10
0754626105
ISBN-13
9780754626107
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 2006
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
408 grams
Product Classification:
Penology & punishmentLaw & societyCriminal law & procedure
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Examining the political economy of punishment, this book debates the view that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies. The author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies and the role of penal politics in controlling this labour force.
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.
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