Golden Gulag Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, And Opposition in Globalizing California

"A magnificent analysis of the political economy of super-incarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons."--Mike Davis, author of "Ecology of Fear ""Golden Gulag is a deeply necessary book for our times. Gilmore digs beneath the easy answers to the more troubling causes of a political consensus that prisons are the only solution to all urban and rural ills."--Nayan Shah, author of "Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown "Ruth Gilmore lays bare the diabolical logic of neoliberal incarceration. She shows us that the prison is a symptom of the decline of our civilization, how the California Nightmare has produced its disposable population. Gilmore's depressingly hopeful analysis is a wake-up call for our somnolence."--Vijay Prashad, author of "Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, WorkfareGilmore, Ruth Wilson is the author of 'Golden Gulag Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, And Opposition in Globalizing California', published 2007 under ISBN 9780520222564 and ISBN 0520222563.