Welfare surveillance -- Stories of struggle -- Rights talk and rights reticence -- The need to resist -- Privacy and the powers of surveillance
Summary
Presents the views and experiences of low-income American mothers who live everyday with the advanced surveillance capacity of the modern welfare state. In their pursuit of food, health care, and shelter for their families, they are watched, analyzed, assessed, monitored, checked, and reevaluated in an ongoing process involving supercomputers, caseworkers, fraud control agents, grocers, and neighbors. They know surveillance. [preface]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index
