Barriers to reentry? : the labor market for released prisoners in post-industrial America / Shawn Bushway, Michael A. Stoll, and David F. Weiman, editors.

"This volume originally grew out of the joint Russell Sage Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation research program on the Future of Work"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The regime of mass incarceration : a labor market perspective / David F. Weiman, Michael A. Stoll, and Shawn Bushway -- Finding work on the outside : results from the "returning home" project in Chicago / Christy A. Visher and Vera Kachnowski -- The effect of an applicant's criminal history on employer hiring decisions and screening practices : evidence from Los Angeles / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll -- Two strikes and you're out : the intensification of racial and criminal stigma / Devah Pager -- Private providers of criminal history records : do you get what you pay for? / Shauna Briggs ... [and others] -- Status and the stigma of incarceration : the labor market effects of incarceration, by race, class, and criminal involvement / Becky Pettit and Christopher Lyons -- Prison-based education and re-entry into the mainstream labor market / John H. Tyler and Jeffrey R. Kling -- Local labor market conditions and post-prison employment experiences of offenders released from Ohio state prisons / William J. Sabol -- The impact of local labor market conditions on the likelihood that parolees are returned to custody / Steven Raphael and David F. Weiman -- The penal system and the labor market / Bruce Western.