| Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics Contributor(s): Giorgi, Alessandro De (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138253952 ISBN-13: 9781138253957 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Criminology - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 364.6 |
| Series: New Advances in Crime and Social Harm |
| Physical Information: 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |