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Overseers of the poor: surveillance, resistance, and the limits of privacy
In: The Chicago series in law and society
Surveillance, privacy, and the law: employee drug testing and the politics of social control
In: Law, meaning, and violence
Resisting Surveillance
In: Social text, Volume 23, Issue 2, p. 71-83
ISSN: 1527-1951
Everyday Surveillance, Everyday Resistance: Computer Monitoring in the Lives of the Appalachian Poor
In: Studies in law, politics, and society, Volume 16, p. 275-297
ISSN: 1059-4337
The lives & coping strategies of the rural poor in Appalachian OH are examined in light of a new condition of high-tech welfare recipients surveillance, drawing on 1994/95 interviews with welfare officials, caseworkers, & 48 recipient mothers. This condition is analyzed as part of a broader societal phenomenon in which the systematic gathering of information on individual behavior is used in law enforcement & social control policies. Results indicate that welfare surveillance is resented & viewed as degrading. Further, there is widespread resistance to & evasion of the surveillance program. 1 Appendix, 41 References. J. Ferrari
The Search for Rational Drug Control. By Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 219p. $24.95
In: American political science review, Volume 87, Issue 2, p. 504-505
ISSN: 1537-5943
Rights & Discipline: Competing Modes of Social Control in the Fight over Employee Drug Testing
In: Polity, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 591-613
ISSN: 1744-1684
Rights & discipline: competing modes of social control in the fight over employee drug testing
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Volume 24, p. 591-613
ISSN: 0032-3497
Reviews recent Supreme Court decisions supporting the goals and assumptions of testing programs, in the face of arguments based on privacy rights.
Rights and Discipline: Competing Modes of Social Control in the Fight over Employee Drug Testing
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 591
ISSN: 0032-3497