Workers’ own campaigns ultimately isolated and despised convicts

Evidence

This multiple tactic had its effect: this is proved by the campaign of the workers’ newspapers against penal labour; against the ‘comfort of the prisons’ and for giving prisoners the hardest and most dangerous work; against the excessive interest shown by philanthropists in the delinquents; against the literature that exalts crime; it is also proved by the general mistrust felt throughout the workers’ movement for former common-law convicts. ‘At the dawn of the twentieth century,’ writes Michèle Perrot, ‘surrounded by contempt, the highest of walls, the prison finally closed in on an unpopular people’ (Perrot). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 438

Categorization

• XREF: The workers’ movement policing itself echoes the self-policing panoptic subject — Foucault’s tactic succeeded by making the dominated participate. — connects to: Police used ex-convicts to maintain lower-class hostility toward delinquents — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436; Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them; Free labor united against convict labor as unfair competition — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3189

Related

• Police used ex-convicts to maintain lower-class hostility toward delinquents (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Police used ex-convicts to maintain lower-class hostility toward delinquents #exemplifies (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them #corroborates (0.75)