Confinement creates a labor monopoly that lets the contractor set wages

Evidence

This encouragement is necessary to his doing his utmost: but more than this is not necessary. It is necessary every exertion he makes should be sure of its reward; but it is not necessary that such reward be so great, or any thing near so great, as he might have had, had he worked elsewhere. The confinement, which is his punishment, preventing his carrying the work to another market, subjects him to a monopoly; which the contractor, his master, like any other monopolist, makes, of course, as much of as he can. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A contractor can extract profit from both prisoner earnings and spending — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211; The pecule system withheld worker wages to enforce discipline and teach savings; Mass incarceration functions as a management system for surplus labor. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 244 (+5 more)

Related

• A contractor can extract profit from both prisoner earnings and spending (similarity 0.84)
• High wages derive from monopoly profits and vanish once methods diffuse. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• A contractor can extract profit from both prisoner earnings and spending #expands (0.90) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211
• The pecule system withheld worker wages to enforce discipline and teach savings #expands (0.82)
• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force #expands (0.78)
• Mass incarceration functions as a management system for surplus labor. #expands (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 244