Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery by Laura Brace & Julia O’Connell Davidson

Author:Laura Brace & Julia O’Connell Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319906232
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

US Prison Labour Today

The third system of US prison labour—the contemporary system—needs to be understood in the light of this history. Today, prison labour is not a mere ‘substitute for’ plantation slavery or an interchangeable ‘form’ of corporate-led unfree labour. While there are obvious links between these systems of exploitation and domination, simplistic analogies blur the complex entanglements between slavery, prison labour, and other systems of unfree labour today, and throughout the history of US capitalism. Further, they too often relegate slavery to the past, overlooking its enduring social and cultural legacy in the US. This framing also overshadows the central role of states in perpetuating and profiting from prison labour, as part of a broader carceral system designed to anchor an unequal and unstable social and economic system of ever-deeper market rule. There is a need to understand the different types of prison labour at play today, the differential roles of states and governments in imposing these, and the role of prison labour within the broader carceral matrix that the state has imposed to instantiate market rule.

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