Racializing Labor Discipline in the Carceral Employment System
基于男子监狱的民族志田野调查，揭示劳动规训如何在监狱内部不平等地实施，强化种族结构并扩大囚犯间的差距，提出“种族化劳动规训”概念解释这一过程。
Research highlights the prison's contributions to habituating marginalized individuals into labor productivity or compliance. Minoritized communities are disproportionately exposed to such discipline. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within a medium security prison for men, this study uncovers ground-level processes through which labor discipline is enacted unequally on the inside, reifying racial structures and amplifying disparities among working prisoners. To explain this, I advance the concept of racializing labor discipline, through which the prison conditions the incarcerated not only for precarious positions in outside markets, but into unequal roles in an ethnoracial labor order. Bridging work, punishment, and racialization scholarship, I identify four key mechanisms through which this unfolds within the hierarchical carceral employment system.