Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment : Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics Paperback / softback
by Alessandro De Giorgi
Part of the New Advances in Crime and Social Harm series
Paperback / softback
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The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'.
However, global processes of transformation have revolutionized industrial capitalism since the early 1970s, thus configuring a post-Fordist system of production.
In this book, the author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies.
Current penal politics can be seen as part of a broader project to control this labour force, with far-reaching effects on the role of the prison and punitive strategies in general.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781138253957
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/11/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138253957