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Doing time in the Depression [electronic resource] : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.

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New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-Ebook Central Academic Complete	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	ix, 326 p. : ill.
Series	American history and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration -- Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons -- From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations -- Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards -- Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment -- Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment -- A dark cloud would go over : death and dying -- Going home.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Prisoners -- California -- History.
	Prisons -- California -- Social conditions.
	Prison administration -- California -- History.
	Prisoners -- Texas -- History.
	Prisons -- Texas -- Social conditions.
	Prison administration -- Texas -- History.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780814709405 (cloth alk. paper)
	9780814709412 (ebook)
	9780814723166 (e-book)
OCLC #	EBC865392

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