J. Phillip Thompson, Author at Pacific Standard

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Prisons have no incentive to pay inmates better—to the contrary. Unlike workers in the free market, who (theoretically, anyway) can weigh factors like pay, working conditions, and other benefits when deciding where to work, inmates do not have a choice between employers. If they need the money, or the experience, they must take or leave what the prison is offering.

Taking Freedom: Capitalism, Democracy, and W.E.B. Du Bois’ Two Proletariats

On W.E.B. Du Bois' theory of the working class and how race and class cannot be separated in the United States.

J. Phillip Thompson