Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Foucault, Michel (1979)

Key Passage

(Quote covering pages 200 - 01)And this invisibility is a guarantee of order. If the inmates are convicts, there is no danger of a plot, an attempt at collective escape, the planning of new crimes for the future, bad reciprocal influences; if they are patients, there is no danger of contagion; if they are madmen there is no risk of their committing violence upon one another; if they are schoolchildren, there is no copying, no noise, no chatter, no waste of time; if they are workers, there are no disorders, no theft, no coalitions, none of those distractions that slow down the rate of work, make it less perfect or cause accidents. (p.200)

Keywords

Discipline, Foucault, Capitalism, Biopower

Themes

Discipline and Punish, Foucault Citations, History of Work

Links to Reference

• https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/266130603

Translator

Sheridan, A.

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