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Barry E.C. Boothman, Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912–1946. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. xxvii + 645. $95.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781487505561).

Discipline and Punish (1975), many theoretical strains of prison studies share this interest in dispersed, pervasive, and dominant forms of power. These critics generally engage with specific examples only to outline broader socioeconomic patterns or tomarkmajor historical shifts. Conversely, by focusing on anomalies like Eastern State Penitentiary, Rubin unveils amore complicated and variegated picture about how power can both work and fail to do so. That is, if congregate labor became an institutional norm by the end of the nineteenth century, Rubin pursues the holdouts and obstacles that produced a counterforce to this historical outcome. With respect to the prominent place given to reformers’ backgrounds andmotives, she also enlivens our historical vision with the power of personality and individual will—a biographical and even psychological interpretive practice largely absent in both institutional theory and prison studies. Through this focus on the power of individuals, she prompts readers to acknowledge their own responsibility as political actors with the power to transform or maintain current systems of (in)justice. Given this sentiment, however, readers might wish Rubin to engage more immediately and thoroughly with the racist underpinnings and effects of the prison in its emergence as well as in today’s crisis of mass incarceration.