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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
      Published 12 January 2001
      ISBN-13 9780226293608
      978-0226293608
      ISBN-10 0226293602
      Also in:
      Law Constitutional and administrative law: general Political control and freedoms Poverty and precarity

      Description

      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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