The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition)

Melossi, Darío; Pavarini, Massimo

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56590-7

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“…This argument was developed by Melossi and Pavarini ([1977] 2018) in The Prison and the Factory . They went back to the origin of penitentiary systems in Europe and the US and pointed out that prison is ‘ancillary’ to the factory, because it is ‘crucial to building and reproducing the social discipline required by a capitalist mode of production’.…”

Section: Migrations and The Prison System: A Comparison Of The Us And...mentioning

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Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy

Crocitti

2021

European Journal of Criminology

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The Great Recession (2008–13) produced several changes in migratory flows and stock, return migration and foreigners’ legal status, employment, involvement in crime and punishment. In the international context, Italy showed some peculiarities. Unlike other South European countries, Italy did not experience a great worsening of the working conditions of immigrants. Moving from the political economy of punishment approaches (in both traditional and recent declinations), the article describes variations in migration during the recession in Italy, and particularly in immigrants’ working conditions, in order to discuss whether and how punitivity against foreigners (measured by incarceration) has been affected by changes in migrants’ inclusion within Italian society and labour market. The decline in foreigners’ imprisonment is explained by social and economic forces pertaining not to the whole Italian social structure but to a subsystem reserved for migrants that I call ‘migrant social structure’.

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Section: Migrations and The Prison System: A Comparison Of The Us And...mentioning

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Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy

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2021

European Journal of Criminology

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“…At times they may have been also that, but I think their most important function has always been a symbolic function. Prison is a symbol of that subordination to the will of gods and kings and masters which was seen at the time as necessary to any well-ordered society (Melossi and Pavarini, 1977: 40–50).…”

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“…At the American Society of Criminology’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, on 16 November 2017, thanks to my good friend and colleague Mona Lynch, I had the pleasure to discuss the 40-year anniversary edition of mine and Pavarini’s The Prison and the Factory (Melossi and Pavarini, 1977) in an Author-Meets-Critics panel with a younger generation of scholars. They were going to comment on whether the volume had still something to say to a 21st century audience!…”

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On the Aftermath of The Prison and the Factory: From genealogy to abolition?

Melossi

2020

Punishment & Society

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“…Rusche and Kirchheimer (2003) focus primarily on the form rather than the scale of punishment, but subsequent research inspired by their work has focused mainly on the latter. For an important exception, seeMelossi and Pavarini (2018).…”

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The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910–1925

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2021

American Journal of Sociology

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A large theoretical literature in sociology connects increases in incarceration to contractions in the demand for labor. But previous research on how the labor market affects incarceration is often functionalist and seldom causal. This article estimates the effect of a shock to the southern agricultural labor market during a time when planters exerted a clear influence over whether workers or potential workers were incarcerated. From 1915 to 1920, a beetle called the boll weevil spread across the state of Georgia, causing cotton yields and the demand for agricultural workers to fall. Using archival records of incarceration in Georgia, the authors find that the boll weevil infestation increased the Black prison admission rate for property crimes by more than a third. The article describes the institutional conditions under which falling labor demand should increase incarceration, clarifies the relationship between incarceration and the economic institutions that replaced slavery, and contributes to a growing literature on incarceration and exploitation in the labor market.At least since Marx, social theorists have proposed that when the demand for labor falls, the number of people in prison tends to rise. Marx and Engels

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The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition)

Cited by 27 publications

References 1 publication

Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy

Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy

On the Aftermath of The Prison and the Factory: From genealogy to abolition?

The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910–1925

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