Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

• Author: Janice Kimball,Terence K. Huwe
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12185
• Date: 01 July 2017
• Published date: 01 July 2017

Recent Publications

Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and

Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

TERENCE K. HUWE, Director of Library & Information Resources

JANICE KIMBALL, Library Assistant

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in

Los Angeles, 1771–1965. By Kelly Lytle Hern

andez. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 978-1-4696-3118-9. 312

pp. $28.00.

The City of Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States,

which itself imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. The author explains how

Los Angeles ended up as the world’s leading incarcerator over two centuries. She evaluates

the parallel histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and Black disappearance,

and explores how these narratives drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. She sees a

historical link between the racial “fantasies”of conquest, and the disempowering nature of

mass incarceration. But she also uncovers a history of resilience, documenting how targeted

peoples and communities always responded with grassroots movements based on self-protec-

tion. The struggle took many forms, including jail-breaks, arguing their case before the

Supreme Court, reaching across national boundaries for allies, and direct action as seen in

the Watts riots of 1965. These actions collectively altered the course of history in the city,

the borderlands, and beyond.

Economics for the Common Good. By Jean Tirole. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2017. 978-0-691-17516-4. 584 pp.

$29.95.

In response to receiving the Nobel Prize, Tirole found that he had gained a much larger audi-

ence of readers who followed economics. This awareness launched his self-transformation

from academic economist to public intellectual, and has prompted him to reflect on the role

economists and their discipline play in society. This book encapsulates much of his thinking

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Vol. 56, No. 3 (July 2017). ©2017 Regents of the University of California

Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA, and 9600 Garsington

Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK.

547