Join the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy and the Organizing Knowledges Project for a talk by Postdoctoral Scholar Abby Cunniff on Thursday, November 19, from 4 to 5:30 PM in SSMS 3145. Light refreshments will be served.

“This work was not economically feasible until inmate labor became available for it.” So said California’s Director of Fish and Game in 1961. Over the 20th century, incarcerated workers put several hundred million hours of labor into the state’s highways, beaches, parks and forests, according to Cunniff’s research. Drawing on state budgets, agency records, news coverage and the accounts of incarcerated workers themselves, Cunniff argues that California’s environmental agencies planned and carried out their work around unfree labor.

RSVP by Wednesday, November 18: https://bit.ly/4eodCBg
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