How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution
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Economics of Conviction
The unemployment rate in the U.S. would be higher if fewer people were incarcerated. By analyzing employment and prison data, this...
Apr 13, 2021
Locked Out of the Labor Market? State-Level Hidden Sentences and the Labor Market Outcomes...
States with more and harsher collateral consequences are more likely to negatively impact employment outcomes for people with criminal...
Apr 13, 2021
Incarceration and Stratification
Prisons generate and perpetuate social inequalities in various forms, including employment discrimination, health and education...
Apr 13, 2021
Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar...
Historians have not adequately assessed and analyzed the impact of post 1960 mass incarceration. Divided into three parts, the author...
Apr 13, 2021
Against Punishment: Centering Work, Wages, and Uneven Development in Mapping the Carceral State
In eastern Kentucky, prisons (like coal) serve as responses to the cycles and problems of capitalism, including deindustrialization,...
Apr 13, 2021
Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor
The carceral state is a highly functioning labor market institution that both excludes people from the labor market and extracts labor....
Apr 13, 2021
“Still Doin' Time:” Clamoring for Work in the Day Labor Industry
The day-labor industry perpetuates socioeconomic inequities through its regulation of formerly incarcerated people, while positioning...
Apr 13, 2021
The Financial Cost of a Criminal Conviction: Context and Consequences
The use of Legal Financial Obligations (i.e., court fines and supervision fees to child support payments), further impedes the upward...
Apr 13, 2021
Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex-offender Employability Crisis
Illinois prisons function as labor-market institutions, designed - at least in part - to specifically exclude Black men from economic...
Apr 13, 2021
A "Labor History" of Mass Incarceration
In order to fully understand the costs of mass incarceration, research on the labor market effects of the carceral state must be truly...
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