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Overseers of the poor : surveillance, resistance, and the limits of privacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilliom, John, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Series:Chicago series in law and society.
Subjects:
Public welfare > Law and legislation > United States.
Government information > United States.
Electronic surveillance > United States.
Privacy, Right of > United States.
Welfare recipients > Civil rights > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Welfare surveillance
  • Stories of struggle
  • Rights talk and rights reticence
  • The need to resist
  • Privacy and the powers of surveillance.