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"Punitive reformation": state-sanctioned labour through criminal justice and welfare

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Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance, Pages: 283 - 296

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This chapter examines an aspect of the “imaginary social order” that was integral to the analysis within Crimes of the Powerful, but has rarely been adequately explored: the “belief that the interests of labour are essentially the same as the interests of capital”. As Frank Pearce powerfully demonst...

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Published in: Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance
ISBN: 9781315212333
Published: Abingdon Routledge 2018
Online Access: https://www.routledge.com/Revisiting-Crimes-of-the-Powerful-Marxism-Crime-and-Deviance/Bittle-Snider-Tombs-Whyte/p/book/9780415791427
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