Purchase Solution

Prison Labour

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Define prison labour and explain how it affects different cultures and societies. Also, please explain the rise and fall of labour in prisons.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution defines prison labour and explains how it affects different societies.

Solution Preview

Prison labor is a form of un-free labor forced upon prisoners convicted of criminal acts and sentenced to prison. In different cultures, prison labor has ranged from virtual death camps such as the gulags of Russia and other communist countries like North Korea to a multi-billion dollar enterprise ...

Solution provided by:
Raushaun Rigsby, MSc
Education
  • Associates of Arts , Lone Star Community College
  • Bachelor of Science , Sam Houston State University
  • Masters of Science, Kaplan University
  • Masters of Science , Kaplan University
Recent Feedback
  • "Thank you however I have two questions: 1.) where in this passage is the actual problem statement? 2.) if you used references can you please provide them? This is great work and I am so grateful. "
  • "Thank you very much"
  • "excellent analysis"
  • "graet job very helpful"
  • "Thank you, excellent and very detailed."
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Pricing Strategies

Discussion about various pricing techniques of profit-seeking firms.

Economic Issues and Concepts

This quiz provides a review of the basic microeconomic concepts. Students can test their understanding of major economic issues.

Elementary Microeconomics

This quiz reviews the basic concept of supply and demand analysis.

Economics, Basic Concepts, Demand-Supply-Equilibrium

The quiz tests the basic concepts of demand, supply, and equilibrium in a free market.

Basics of Economics

Quiz will help you to review some basics of microeconomics and macroeconomics which are often not understood.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Privatizing Prisons

    Also there is that issue of Prison labour.

  • Eugene Debs' Political Views

    He once said (1895): "While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Yes, like Marx and Lenin he was espousing for labour equality and socialism.

  • Portrayal of Oppression in the French-Algerian War

    Some people know that at certain times in their lives they are awaiting death (like in a prison camp or slave labour camp), but others clearly do not know. Therefore, we must conclude that one awaits death every day of his life.

  • General Equilibrium in the labour market

    demand: Labour demand Real wage 291 5 271 6 251 7 231 8 211 9 191 10 We find that labour supply equals labour demand at ₤8/hour.

  • Ethics Module on IKEA and child labour

    This means that including anti-child labour clauses in contracts are mere window dressing since the use of child labour is technically legal in these countries. • The use of child labour is not the problem, but cause of underlying problems.

  • What is a surplus value?

    There is a quaint distinction, made by Marx, between labour and labour power, with the former being an activity and the latter a commodity. A capitalist cannot buy labour, but only labour power for a certain wage.

  • A Gangs Influence on the Prison Community

    A prison warden and the prison guards will tolerate gangs so long as they are convinced that the gangs will help in insuring that no prison violence ensues.

  • Full Costing - Pieman Products Limited

    To find the overhead recovery rate per direct labour hour you have to divide the total amount for overheads found above by the total labour hours i.e. £51,000 / 16,000 hours = £3.1875 per direct labour hour.

  • Prisons - Avoiding another Attica

    Changes to prison conditions have been made to avoid another Attica type prison riot.

View More Related Solutions