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Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy - Chicago Series in Law and Society
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.
277 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226293608 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 277 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 148 × 21 mm · 386 g |
| Language | English |