Publication Date
Spring 2025
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Justice Studies
Advisor
Alessandro De Giorgi; Gabriela Gonzalez; Justin Strong
Abstract
The rise of segments of the labor force devoted to functions other than production has received increased scholarly attention, particularly pertaining to the robust deployment of the police and criminal justice apparat in the neoliberal era. Critical perspectives align the rise of the securitization of society with political and economic transitions that occur within the contexts of changes to social inequality and crackdowns on social movements beginning in the 1970s. In a theoretical construction of the emerging concept of guard labor, this thesis finds that robust societal deployments of a form of functional labor used to entrench social inequality has arisen under a veil of crime control, which produces new classes of guards for maintaining compliance within a system characterized by neoliberal insecurity.
Recommended Citation
Glynn, Everett T., "One Nation Under Guard" (2025). Master's Theses. 5646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.esd5-tsq7
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/5646
