Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar
The Dig
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The Surplus Population in the United States
In the united states, more than half are carrying some kind of disqualifying arrest or conviction record. Many people righteously believe that somehow continuation of unfreedom must mean a continuation of labor exploitation? It's different. There is exploitation, it's not labor. What turns into money that circulates as wages and interest and rent and utility bills and so forth, is time. The people who are locked up are deprived of time; they never get it back.
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