At Work in the Iron Cage
Subtitle: The Prison as Gendered Organization
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: August 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780814798843
Subjects: Gender Studies; Office & workplace; Prisons; Social Science; Officials and employees; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; USA; Penology; Criminology; Correctional personnel; Training of; United States
First sentence: Imagine a prison guard.
Description: One fifth of all correctional officers are women and this comparative analysis of men's and women's prisons identifies the factors that influence the gendering of the American workplace, a process that often leaves women in lower-paying jobs with less prestige and responsibility. [back cover].