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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 
 TITLE: \n\nInside Jobs: Prison Work in the American Labor Market\n\nAbstra
 ct:  \n\nIt is easy to think of prison work as the opposite of work on the
  free market: The prisoner working without pay in the mess hall\, or makin
 g license plates for $0.40 an hour\, seems more comparable to an enslaved 
 person than to someone working a job on the outside\, however bad that job
  may be. Such a distinction is baked into our common sense and into our ju
 risprudence\, and it has played an important symbolic role in American pol
 itical and social life\, from the earliest campaigns of the American labor
  movement to the modern-day prison reform movement.  But it obscures as mu
 ch as it clarifies. It masks the coercion underlying systems of “free”
  labor\, as well as the different forms of freedom that incarcerated peopl
 e have occasionally exercised in relationship to their work inside. Rather
  than view prison work as the opposite of “free” labor\, then\, Inside
  Jobs considers the prison as an important site in which ideas and practic
 es about the relationship between work\, coercion\, and freedom have been 
 developed and contested across different periods of American economic hist
 ory.
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LOCATION:Clark Hall\, 291
SUMMARY:Adam Reich
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/adam-reich
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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