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100	1		_aGilmore, Ruth Wilson.
245	1	0	_aGolden Gulag : _bPrisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2007.
264		4	_c©2007.
300			_a1 online resource (413 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAmerican Crossroads Series ; _vv.21
505	0		_aCover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue: The Bus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The California Political Economy -- 3. The Prison Fix -- 4. Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism -- 5. Mothers Reclaiming Our Children -- 6. What Is to Be Done? -- Epilogue: Another Bus -- Notes -- Bibliography and References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520			_aSince 1980, the number of people in U.S. 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, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aPrisons -- California.
650		0	_aPrisons -- Economic aspects -- California.
650		0	_aImprisonment -- California.
650		0	_aCriminal justice, Administration of -- California.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration -- California.
650		0	_aMinorities -- California.
650		0	_aCalifornia -- Economic conditions.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aGilmore, Ruth Wilson _tGolden Gulag _dBerkeley : University of California Press,c2007 _z9780520242012
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aAmerican Crossroads Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1873254 _zClick to View
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