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Prison Profiteers : Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration

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edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright
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Book, New Press, 2007
Description
Prison Profiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country’s experiment with mass imprisonment. It lets us follow the money from public to private hands and exposes how monies formerly designated for the public good are diverted to prisons and their maintenance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Prison industries · Corrupt practices · United States · Corrections · Contracting out · Imprisonment · Finance · Herivel, Tara · Wright, Paul, 1965-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV8925 .P58 2007 AVAILABLE

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Activism, Inc. : How The Outsourcing Of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics In America

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Dana R. Fisher
Publication Details
Book, Stanford University Press, 2006
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- Table of contents only
Description
Fisher examines the history and rationale behind political outsourcing on the Left, weaving together frank interviews with canvassers, high-ranking political officials across the political spectrum, and People?s Project management. Connecting local people on the streets throughout America to the national organizations and political campaigns that make up progressive politics, it shows what happens to the passionate young activists outsourced to the clients of Activism, Inc. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Political participation · United States · Campaign management · Contracting out · Political activists · Social movements · Fisher, Dana, 1971-
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The True Genius Of America At Risk : Are We Losing Our Public Universities To De Facto Privatization?

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Katharine C. Lyall and Kathleen R. Sell ; foreword by David Ward
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Book, Praeger, 2006
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- Table of contents
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Unless those who care about preserving these valuable public assets redefine the core purposes of public higher education, college will quickly become a very difficult goal for lower-income citizens to achieve, and the economic future of America will suffer as a consequence. Lyall and Sell describe market forces that are eroding the traditional partnership between states and public universities, and explain how the search for new revenue sources is refocusing the basic goals of public universities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Public universities and colleges · Services for · Contracting out · United States · Finance · Privatization in education · Higher education and state · Lyall, Katharine · Sell, Kathleen R
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(LOWER LEVEL) LB2341.93.U6 L93 2006 AVAILABLE

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Does Outsourcing Harm America?

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Katherine Read Dunbar, book editor
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Book, Greenhaven Press/ Thomson Gale, 2006
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Contracting out · United States · Labor market · Personnel management · Economic conditions · Dunbar, Katherine Read
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REFERENCE (MAIN) HD2365 .D64 2006 AVAILABLE

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Private Prisons In America : A Critical Race Perspective

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Michael A. Hallett
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Book, University of Illinois Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
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Corrections · Contracting out · United States · Discrimination in criminal justice administration · United States · Hallett, Michael A
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV9469 .H256 2006 AVAILABLE

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Fast Boat To China : Corporate Flight And The Consequences Of Free Trade : Lessons From Shanghai

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Andrew Ross
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Book, 1st ed, Pantheon Books, 2006
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Contracting out · China · Shanghai Region · Foreign trade and employment · Wages · Effect of international trade on · Shanghai Region · Ross, Andrew, 1956-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HD2365 .R67 2006 AVAILABLE

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Prison, Inc. : A Convict Exposes Life Inside A Private Prison

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K.C. Carceral ; edited by Thomas J. Bernard
Publication Details
Book, New York University Press, 2006
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
Description
Like ‘boot camps,’ ‘three strikes,’ and so called ‘truth in sentencing,’ private prisons are another expensive failure. Richards, co-author of Behind Bars: Surviving Prison Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an actual inmate, K.C. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Carceral, K. C · Prisons · United States · Case studies · Corrections · Contracting out · Prisoners · Biography · Carceral, K. C · Bernard, Thomas J
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV9471 .C283 2006 LOST&PD6-11/07

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End Of The Line : The Rise And Coming Fall Of The Global Corporation

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Barry C. Lynn
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Book, 1st ed, Doubleday, 2005
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It is the story of how American corporations created a global production system by exploding the traditional factory and casting the pieces to dozens of points around the world. It is a story of how executives and entrepreneurs at such companies as General Electric, Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, and Flextronics adapted their companies to a world in which America?s international policies were driven ever more by ideology rather than a focus on the long-term security and well-being of society. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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International business enterprises · Contracting out · Globalization · Economic aspects · Social aspects · International economic relations · United States · Foreign economic relations · Lynn, Barry C
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(LOWER LEVEL) HD2755.5 .L96 2005 AVAILABLE

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Exporting America : Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas

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Lou Dobbs
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Book, 1st ed, Warner Books, 2004
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Unemployment · United States · Labor market · Contracting out · Corporations · Corrupt practices · Investments, Foreign, and employment · Foreign trade and employment · Dobbs, Lou
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(LOWER LEVEL) HD5724 .D578 2004 AVAILABLE

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Of Little Faith : The Politics Of George W. Bush’s Faith- Based Initiatives

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Amy E. Black, Douglas L. Koopman, and David K. Ryden
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Book, Georgetown University Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Amy Black, Douglas Koopman, and David Ryden–all prominent political scientists–utilize a framework that takes the issue through all three branches of government and analyzes it through three very specific lenses: a public policy lens, a political party lens, and a lens of religion in the public square. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Bush, George W. · (George Walker), · 1946- · Federal aid to human services · United States · Human services · Contracting out · Church charities · Government policy · Finance · Church and state · Social policy · 1993- · Black, Amy E · Koopman, Douglas L · Ryden, David K
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Thomas L. Friedman Reporting The Other Side Of Outsourcing

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reporter and series editor, Thomas L. Friedman ; produced and directed by Kenneth Levis
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Video, Discovery Communications, 2004
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Contracting out · Documentary television programs · India · Economic conditions · 1947- · Social conditions · LAMSON LIBRARY DVD · Friedman, Thomas L · Levis, Ken · Discovery Channel (Firm) · Discovery Communications, Inc
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RESERVE MEDIA H85-M DUE 11-23-09 3:08PM

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NH’s Social-service Contracts With Faith-based Organizations

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author, Katherine B. Merrow
Publication Details
Book, New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, 2004
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- READ THIS REPORT ONLINE
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Church charities · New Hampshire · Social service · Religious aspects · Contracting out · Electronic information resource · Electronic information resource · LAMSON LIBRARY LINKS TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES · Merrow, Katherine · New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV530 .M47 2004 AVAILABLE

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Capitalist Punishment : Prison Privatization & Human Rights

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edited by Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell, Rodney Neufeld ; [foreword by Sir Nigel Rodley]
Publication Details
Book, Clarity Press, 2003
Description
Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prisons owned and operated by private corporations–a booming business. But how are the human rights of prisoners and prison employees affected when prisons are run for profit? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Corrections · Contracting out · United States · Prison administration · Prisoners · Civil rights · Privatization · Human rights · Coyle, Andrew · Campbell, Allison · Neufeld, Rodney · Human Rights Internet
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV9469 .C37 2003 AVAILABLE

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Student Affairs And External Relations

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Mary Beth Snyder, editor
Publication Details
Book, Jossey-Bass, 2002
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Student affairs services · Contracting out · Education (Higher) · Snyder, Mary Beth, 1949-
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(LOWER LEVEL) LB2342.9 .S78 2002 AVAILABLE

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The Tools Of Government : A Guide To The New Governance

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edited by Lester M. Salamon ; with the special assistance of Odus V. Elliott
Publication Details
Book, Oxford University Press, 2002
Description
The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services-but arrange for others to do so. International in coverage and application, this book is ideal for students, teachers, and scholars in public administration, management, public policy, economics, political science, and nonprofit management; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Political planning · Public administration · Intergovernmental cooperation · Public-private sector cooperation · Contracting out · Salamon, Lester M · Elliott, Odus V
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(LOWER LEVEL) JF1525.P6 T66 2002 AVAILABLE

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