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Beginning with a nucleus of gifts from Ellen C. Barrett, Francis Howell, Helen Raitt, and others, the Baja California Collection has developed into a major resource for Baja California studies. Over 1,800 books, journals, newspapers, maps, photographs, and manuscripts support comprehensive research in the history, politics, culture, economy, and natural history of the Baja California peninsula. Literature is included when Baja California forms the subject of the work.
Geophysical, archeological and biological studies, descriptions by early explorers, civil codes, mission records and accounts, documentation of settlements, guidebooks, travel narratives and journals, family and local histories, economic reports and statistics, reports on US/Mexican border affairs, and contemporary trade relations reflect the topical breadth of these resources, which range in date from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
Most of these are Spanish language materials published largely in Baja California or in the United States, although many of the histories, guidebooks, and early works on natural history are in English. Some interesting examples in the collection include 1889/90 issues of Periodico Oficial, a government newspaper for the Baja district of Mexico that published legal news and announcements but also included extensive advertising and sales notices; Lower Californian, an English language newspaper published in Ensenada in the late nineteenth century; Coleccion de los principales trabajos
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So then there’s this…
Just as mass incarceration has burdened American taxpayers in major prison states, so is the use of inmate labor contributing to lost jobs, unemployment and decreased wages among workers — while corporate profits soar.
The use of forced labor in prisons took off in the early 1990s. Funny that. So did our incarceration rate:
Our prison industrial complex is nothing but corporate slave labor. Not saying people are purposefully being locked up to be a captive labor force for corporations, but with a largely privatized prison system, plus corporate contracts for labor going to said prisons, it’s an awfully interesting correlation, no?
Not saying that no-one belongs in jail, of course. But the amount of people in prison is ridiculous, as are many of the reasons for locking citizens up (e.g. possession of marijuana).
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