All labour exists on a spectrum, ranging from enslavement at one pole, to fully, freely given on the other.
And, in Canada, at the most extreme end of that spectrum are prison labourers. Incarcerated people have few rights and fewer options when it comes to their working lives.
If we want to truly understand our criminal justice system and Canadian labour, we need to examine how prisoners work.
Featured in this episode: Jordan House, Asaf Rashid
To learn more:
Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour by Jordan House & Asaf Rashid
“Prison breaking-point: Canada’s jail system is in crisis, and that affects all of us” by Justin Ling in The Globe and Mail
“The case for a prisoners’ union” in Briarpatch by Jordan House & Asaf Rashid
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WORK 11 - The Way the Music Died
WORK 10 - Prison Labour Industrial Complex
Introducing Pretendians
WORK 8 - Make and Break Harbour
WORK 7 - Merchants of the Rock
WORK 6 - Emptying an Ocean
WORK 5 - The Westray Disaster
WORK 4 - Reaping the Whirlwind
WORK 3 - Bitter Harvest
WORK 2 - State of Emergency Rooms
WORK 1 - The War on Workers
Introducing our new season… Work
Bonus - Everybody Loves Romana
CANADALAND #914 Stock Buybacks: How Grocers Eat Themselves
RATFUCKER Chapter Two: The Brethren
CULTS 10 - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fandom
CULTS 9 - Romana’s Reign
CULTS 8 - The Eye of the Pyramid
CULTS 7 - Hey #Bossbabe!
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