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DESCRIPTION:Adam Reich\, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University\, wi
 ll give a talk as part of the Sociology Colloquium spring series.\n\nTALK T
 ITLE: \n\nInside Jobs: Prison Work in the American Labor Market\n\nAbstract
 :  \n\nIt is easy to think of prison work as the opposite of work on the fr
 ee market: The prisoner working without pay in the mess hall\, or making li
 cense plates for $0.40 an hour\, seems more comparable to an enslaved perso
 n than to someone working a job on the outside\, however bad that job may b
 e. Such a distinction is baked into our common sense and into our jurisprud
 ence\, and it has played an important symbolic role in American political a
 nd social life\, from the earliest campaigns of the American labor movement
  to the modern-day prison reform movement.  But it obscures as much as it c
 larifies. It masks the coercion underlying systems of “free” labor\, as wel
 l as the different forms of freedom that incarcerated people have occasiona
 lly exercised in relationship to their work inside. Rather than view prison
  work as the opposite of “free” labor\, then\, Inside Jobs considers the pr
 ison as an important site in which ideas and practices about the relationsh
 ip between work\, coercion\, and freedom have been developed and contested 
 across different periods of American economic history.
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LOCATION:Clark Hall\, 291
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SUMMARY:Adam Reich
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/adam-reich
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