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Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy - Chicago Series in Law and Society 2nd edition
John Gilliom
Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy - Chicago Series in Law and Society 2nd edition
John Gilliom
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.
186 pages, Ill.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 1, 2001 |
ISBN13 | 9780226293615 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 277 |
Dimensions | 216 × 140 × 17 mm · 278 g |
Language | English |