Overseers of the Poor

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].

First sentence: IN THE WINTER OF 1915, the following reports were filed as part of the home examinations required for applicants to the Mother's Pension in Muskingham County, Ohio: Mrs. Hooper lives on the top of Owen's Hill in a two story frame house.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

2

Pages

277

ISBN

9780226293608

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