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The soft cage : surveillance in America : from slavery to the war on terror

Author: Christian Parenti
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christian Parenti
ISBN: 0465054846 9780465054848 0465054854 9780465054855
OCLC Number: 52429761
Description: xii, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Christian Parenti.
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