Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance and the Limits of Privacy (The Chicago series in law & society)

by JohnGilliom (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $28.36

  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.