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A new book from a Brock expert and a criminal defense lawyer explores the extension of legal labor protections to some of Canada's most marginalized workers—prisoners working during their incarceration.
Assistant Professor Jordan House in the Department of Labor Studies, with co-author and lawyer Asaf Rashid, published "Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labor" last month with Fernwood Publishing.
"Prison laborers are exempt from basic health and safety, employment standards and labor laws, and I think we should ask why these legal exclusions exist," says House. "We argue that there aren't any good public safety, legal or moral justification to exclude prisoners from normal occupational health and safety regulations."
House's interest in prison justice issues dates back to his time as an undergraduate student, when he attended a workshop at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick through the Alternatives to Violence Project.
Then, while completing his Ph.D. dissertation on prison labor and resistance in Canada, he gave an interview about his research on campus radio with future co-author Rashid.
When Rashid attended law school a few years later, he wrote a paper on federal prisoner unionization. After receiving positive feedback on the essay, Rashid and House decided to expand the argument into a book.
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