Overseers of the poor : surveillance, resistance, and the limits of privacy
Presents the views and experiences of low-income American mothers who live everyday with the advanced surveillance capacity of the modern welfare state. In their pursuit of food, health care, and shelter for their families, they are watched, analyzed, assessed, monitored, checked, and reevaluated in an ongoing process involving supercomputers, caseworkers, fraud control agents, grocers, and neighbors. They know surveillance. [preface]
xv, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
9780226293608, 9780226293615, 0226293602, 0226293610
46951321
Welfare surveillance
Stories of struggle
Rights talk and rights reticence
The need to resist
Privacy and the powers of surveillance
English