"Repatriating" low-wage work: The political economy of prison labor reprivatization in the postindustrial United States

Criminology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 253-292

  Weiss, Robert P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00923.x     Document Type: Article

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