The soft cage : surveillance in America : from slavery to the war on terror / Christian Parenti.

"The Soft Cage explores the hidden history of surveillance - from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice, tracking immigrants, and closely monitoring the poor as part of modern social work. It also explores the role computers play in creating a whole new worl...

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Main Author: Parenti, Christian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2003]
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Table of Contents:
  • Life in the glass box
  • Antebellum ID : genealogies of identification and registration
  • The accumulation of bodies, Part 1 : Identification and photography
  • The accumulation of bodies, Part 2 : Early biometrics
  • Cruel Gan Saan : surveillance and Chinese exclusion
  • Of ones and zeros : digital surveillance emerges
  • Surveillance and the sinews of commerce
  • Camera land : security aesthetics and public space
  • The digital leash : mobility and freedom
  • The new Taylorism : surveillance, work, and discipline
  • The benevolent gaze : dossiers and the helping professions
  • The eye of justice
  • Voyeurism and security culture
  • Fear as institution : 9/11 and surveillance triumphant.