Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism

Evidence

If we combine Howard’s emphasis on disciplined selfreflection with Bentham’s ideas regarding the technology of internalization designed to make surveillance and discipline the purview of the individual prisoner, we can begin to see how such a conception of the prison had far-reaching implications. The conditions of possibility for this new form of punishment were strongly anchored in a historical era during which the working class needed to be constituted as an army of self-disciplined individuals capable of performing the requisite industrial labor for a developing capitalist system. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 115

Categorization

• XREF: Aligns with the Marxist account of discipline from chapter 5 and with Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. — connects to: Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2601; The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force; Mass incarceration functions as a management system for surplus labor. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 244 (+11 more)

Related

• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force (similarity 0.87)
• Rehabilitation has been displaced by incapacitation as prison’s goal (similarity 0.86)
• Prison expresses bourgeois labor’s logic rather than rehabilitation’s aim (similarity 0.84)
• Mass incarceration functions as a management system for surplus labor. (similarity 0.83)
• Imprisonment emerged with capitalism’s need for disciplined manpower (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s imprisonment by fascism shaped his theory of the capitalist state (similarity 0.83)
• Penal labour reshapes convicts mechanistically into docile, regularized workers (similarity 0.82)
• The prison boom was a way to concentrate and manage a capitalist human surplus (similarity 0.80)
• Prisons proliferated while crime rates were falling due to corporate profit (similarity 0.79)
• Punishment is so corporatized that mainstream companies now stake themselves in its perpetuation (similarity 0.79)
• Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system (similarity 0.79)
• Systems of thought become prisons that are easily made, applied, and guarded (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force #corroborates (0.95)
• Mass incarceration functions as a management system for surplus labor. #expands (0.70) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 244
• The prison boom was a way to concentrate and manage a capitalist human surplus #expands (0.60)