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| Titre : | Captive in Cycles of Invisibility? : Prisoners’ Work for the Private Sector (2019) |
| Auteurs : | Jenna Pandeli ; Michael Marinetto ; Jean Jenkins |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work, employment and society (vol. 33, n° 4, August 2019) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 596–612 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ ETABLISSEMENT PENITENTIAIRE ; REINSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE ; REPRESENTATION DU TRAVAIL ; BNQ - BAS NIVEAU DE QUALIFICATION ; ROYAUME UNI |
| Résumé : | This article critiques a case of modern prison-labour by exploring prisoners’ attitudes towards the prison-work they undertake while incarcerated. The study is based at a privatised male prison in the UK, assigned the pseudonym ‘Bridgeville’. Bridgeville contracts with private-sector firms in providing market-focused prison-work – so-called real work – for inmates in some of its workshops. In exploring prisoners’ perceptions of this privatised prison-work, it is found that it mainly comprises mundane, low-skilled activities typical of informalised, poor-quality jobs that are socially, legally and economically devalued and categorised as forms of ‘invisible work’. At Bridgeville, such privatised prison-work largely fails in engaging or upskilling inmates, leaving them pessimistic about its value as preparation for employment post-release. Its rehabilitative credentials are therefore questioned... (source: article |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017018777712 |
