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TOCH LIBRARY

Most of the books in Hans Toch’s library are heavily marked up. This makes them worthless monetarily, but a treasure to see what he considered significant in the many classics in his library, including many written by his former students.

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Workers Self Management and Organizational Power in Yugoslavia

Edited by Josip Obradovié and William N. Dunn

From the Preface: In constructing a volumeofcollected contributions to theory and research on workers' self-management in Yugoslavia, the authors' primary aim is to introduce English-speaking audiences to a large and informative body of empirical studies available in Yugoslav languages. We wish at the same time to emphasize the practical interdependence and complementarity of empirical and theoretical studies of participation, industrial democracy, and self-management. In stressing the importance of these contributions to the theory and practice of self-management, both in Yugoslavia and other countries, we eventually chose the concept of organizational power as a means to order, link, and interpret the selections in this volume. We hope we have created a product that is reasonably coherent, problem-specific, and grounded in empirical research.

University of Pittsburgh. University Center for International Studies. 1978. 457p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

The Politics of Cruelty

By Kate Millett

From Amazon: “From one of the most influential figures of the last twenty years―the author of Sexual Politics―comes this brilliant work in which Kate Millet sets out a new theory of politics for our time, a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of rule, as conscious policy. It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, "a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually."

NY. W.W.Norton. 1994. 257p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control Second Edition

By Nicole Hahn Rafter

FROM THE PREFACE: “Prisons fascinate the societies that create them because--short of the death penalty--they are the ultimate form and symbol of the power of the state over the individual. In the imagery that mesmerizes us, prisoners arc anonymous masses controlled by walls, steel bars, and impersonal guards. Their fearsome punishment, suffered cqually by all, is loss of liberty. This book addresses the limitations of this powerful but simplistic image.”

New Brunswick . Transaction Publishers. 1992. 298p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Miller's Revenge

By Robert Johnson

“The man on the steel table was mine, my client. I work for the dead. I bring them justice. When someone in prison is murdered, I take the case. I'm a murder cop, detailed from the inner city of Baltimore to the cell blocks of the state penitentiary. That's my beat--the prison, the pen, the house, call it what you like. Just be glad you're not there….”

You might not live to tell about it.

Brown Paper Publishing. 2010. 140p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

A Sense of Freedom

By Jimmy Boyle

From the Introduction: “…In writing the book in a manner thatexpresses all the hatred and rage that I felt at the time of the experiences,especially the latterpart, I have been told that I lose the sympathy of the reader and that this isn't wise for someonewho is stillowned by the State anddependent on the authorities for a paroledate. The book is a genuine attempt to warn young people that there si nothing glamorous about getting in- volvedincrimeand violence. Ifeel that the only way any real progress can be made in this direction is through havinga better understanding ofit and the only way this will be achieved si by putting our cards on the table, and this I've tried hard to do. Idon'tfeel that sympathy or popularity contests have anything to do with it.”

London. Cannongate Publishing. 1977. 258p. Book contains mark-up

The Time Game: Two Views Of A Prison

By Anthony J. Manocchio and Jimmy Dunn

From the Preface by Lamar Empey: T”he design and conduct of many, perhaps most, sociological studies depend upon some knowledge of the subjective views of the actors to be investigated. Without it, the investigation must proceed more by assumption than by evidence, more by conjecture than by an informed point of view. To be able to ask relevant questions and to explore key issues. the sociologist must have some prior grasp of the way those issues look to the persons who are to be studied, what they contend with, and why they believe as they do. There is nothing quite so difficult as attempting to gather data on the nature and subiective side of institu- tional patterns and processes without such information.”

Beverly Hills. Sage, 1970. 254p.

NOTE: This book is heavily marked up but quite legible

Inquiries Concerning Kinds Of Treatment For Kinds Of Delinquents

By Board Of Corrections

“Recent years have brought an increased impetus to thinking about typologies of criminals and delinquents. Of the many forces contrib- uting to this development, two stand out. The first has come with the switch from custody to treatment emphasis in handling offenders along with the disappointments regarding the total effectiveness of some attempted treatment programs.”

Board Of Corrections. State Of California. Monograph No. 2. July 1961. 46p.

Youth Involvement

By .J Robert Weber and Carson Custer.

“A curious feature of the literature on youth involvement is that most of it is an exhortation to involve youth and very little deals with description of actual practice or an evaluation of the effectiveness of youth involvement in relation to goal achievement. It is almost as if youth ought to participate because it would be "good" for them. Sometimes it is implied that youth involvement would be "good" for adults. At other times youth involvement sounds like a strategy to shift decision-making power in such a manner that would enhance the writer's viewpoint.

Information Review on Crime and Delinquency. NCCD Vol.1. No.9. 1969. 39p.