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

By: Parenti, Christian.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, c2003Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xii, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0465054846.Subject(s): Social control -- United States -- History | Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- United States | Political culture -- United States | Privacy, Right of -- United States | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009DDC classification: 303.3/3/0973 Online resources: Table of contents
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 Gam 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Gam 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.

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