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Solidarity Beyond Bars
Unionizing Prison Labour
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Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they do it for and under which conditions. Unions protect workers fighting for better pay and against discrimination and occupational health and safety concerns, but prisoners are denied this protection despite being the lowest paid workers with the least choice in what they do — the most vulnerable among the working class. Starting from the perspective that work during imprisonment is not “rehabilitative,” this book examines the reasons why people should care about prison labour and how prisoners have struggled to organize for labour power in the past. Unionizing incarcerated workers is critical for both the labour movement and struggles for prison justice, this book argues, to negotiate changes to working conditions as well as the power dynamics within prisons themselves.
Jordan House is an assistant professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. His research focuses on prison labour and prisoner-worker organizing, new forms of worker organization and labour movement renewal. His work has appeared in several publications, including Labour / Le Travail, Labor Studies Journal, Rankandfile.ca, Canadian Dimension and Jacobin. He previously worked as a labour organizer and union researcher and is a long-time prison justice activist.
,Asaf Rashid is a criminal defence, immigration and prison lawyer in Halifax / k’jipuktuk. He is on the board of the East Coast Prison Justice Society; is a former union organizer; and author of “Solidarity Beyond Bars: unionizing prison labour”, published in 2022 by Fernwood Publishing.
- ISBN-13
- 9781773635613
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing
- Imprint
- Fernwood Publishing
- Publication date
- 15 November 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 244
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
- Language
- English
