Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, And Opposition In Globalizing California

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.

• | By (Author): Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• | Series: American Crossroads
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 08, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 412 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780520242012