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Author Gilliom, John, 1960-

Title Overseers of the poor : surveillance, resistance, and the limits of privacy / John Gilliom.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.0858 G416o 2001    ---  Available
Description xv, 186 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Chicago series in law and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.
Contents Welfare surveillance -- Stories of struggle -- Rights talk and rights reticence -- The need to resist -- Privacy and the powers of surveillance.
Subject Public welfare -- Law and legislation.
Government information.
Electronic surveillance.
Privacy, Right of.
Welfare recipients -- Civil rights.
ISBN 0226293602 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226293610 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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