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Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition (Part 1)
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Worker's Compensation in the United States
One of the earliest american prisons claimed that it arcerated people to make sure they were useful. But what did it mean to be useful for the masses of working people in the eighteenth century united states? To understand this, ruthy takes us away from the united states. In the early days, sentences tended to be very short, as were lives. And we also know, if we follow very carefully, that unfree people were very rarely locked up. Unfree people wo existed for their labor to be exploited,. were rarely locked up because it was not useful for those who owned the fruits of their labor to have them locked away.
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