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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.

Overseers of the Poor Surveillance Resistance

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2001
      ISBN13: 9780226293615, 978-0226293615
      ISBN10: 0226293610

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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