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Blue, Ethan.

Doing time in the Depression everyday life in Texas and California prisons / [electronic resource] : Ethan Blue. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - ix, 326 p. : ill. - American history and culture . - American history and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration -- Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons -- From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations -- Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards -- Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment -- Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment -- A dark cloud would go over : death and dying -- Going home.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

ISBN: 9780814709412 (electronic bk.) 9780814723166 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prisoners--History.--California
Prisons--Social conditions.--California
Prison administration--History.--California
Prisoners--History.--Texas
Prisons--Social conditions.--Texas
Prison administration--History.--Texas

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV9475.C2 / B58 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 365/.976409043