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This research aims to explore how labor discipline is racialized within the prison system, affecting marginalized communities disproportionately.

Racializing Labor Discipline in the Carceral Employment System

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Ethnographic study uncovers racial disparities in labor discipline among incarcerated individuals.

This research aims to explore how labor discipline is racialized within the prison system, affecting marginalized communities disproportionately.
Conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a medium security prison for men.
Identified processes of labor discipline enacted in unequal ways.
Developed the concept of racializing labor discipline to explain these dynamics.
Discovered four key mechanisms through which racialization impacts labor discipline.
Showed that prisons condition incarcerated individuals for precarious labor roles in external markets.
Revealed how labor practices reinforce existing racial disparities among working prisoners.

Michael Gibson-Light (2026) studied this question.

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