In recognition of International Workers Day, we are airing an interview with authors behind a book that explores forced and under-or-un-paid labor of prisoners across the United States. The book is called Abolition Labor , and it draws connections between the labor forced on prisoners who hustle to survive on the inside and our precarious economy on the outside. The book argues that, far from being quarantined from society, prisons and their forced work regime have a sizable impact on the economic and social lives of millions of American households.
Our guests are two of the authors of that book, Andrew Ross and Tommaso Bardelli. Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, where he also directs the Prison Research Lab. Tommaso Bardelli is a Research Fellow at the NYU Prison Education Program Research Lab, where he conducts research on mass incarceration, financial debt, and their intersections.
Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is Mexican-Palestinian-American filmmaker Colette Ghunim, whose upcoming film titled Traces of Home follows Colette’s journeys with her parents to find the ancestral houses they were forced to flee as children in Mexico and Palestine. What begins as a desire to connect to Colette’s cultural origins reveals an internal quest to heal her disconnect with her parents, and, ultimately, with herself.
Check out Colette Ghunim’s website: https://www.coletteghunim.com/
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