TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLennan,Rebecca M.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The crisis of imprisonment: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 
T2  - Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
SN  - 9780521830966 (hardback)
AV  - HN59 .M222 2008eb
U1  - 365/.97309034 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Convict labor
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Punishment
KW  - Criminal law
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index; Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment -- Strains of servitude : legal punishment in the early republic -- Due convictions : contractual penal servitude and its discontents, 1818-1865 -- Commerce upon the throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America -- Disciplining the state, civilizing the market : the campaign to abolish contract prison labor -- A model servitude : prison reform in the early Progressive Era -- Uses of the state : the dialectics of penal reform in early progressive New York -- American Bastille : Sing Sing and the political crisis of imprisonment -- Changing the subject : the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high Progressive Era -- Laboratory of social justice : the new penologists at Sing Sing, 1915-1917 -- Punishment without labor : towards the modern penal state -- Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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