Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal PoliticsAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 167 pages 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. |
Contents
The Political Economy of Penality and the Sociology of Punishment | 1 |
PostFordism and the Emergence of the Multitude | 41 |
The Government of Surplus Preliminary Incursions in the Field | 67 |
Mass Confinement and Actuarial Penology | 91 |
Towards | 111 |
Conclusion | 139 |
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Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post ... Alessandro De Giorgi No preview available - 2016 |
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References to this book
Criminology: A Sociological Introduction Eamonn Carrabine,Maggy Lee,Nigel South,Pam Cox,Ken Plummer No preview available - 2008 |
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| Title | Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics Advances in criminology |
| Author | Alessandro De Giorgi |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 |
| ISBN | 0754626105, 9780754626107 |
| Length | 167 pages |
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