Overseers of the Poor - Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy - John Gilliom - Hardback Bog - The University of Chicago Press - 2001 -
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Description
Confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best - the watched. The book focuses on the conversations of low-income mothers from Appalachian Ohio as they talk about the welfare bureaucracy and its remarkably advanced surveillance system.
