Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks.
By: Eubanks, Virginia [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, ©2017Edition: First Edition.Description: 260 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250074317 (hardcover).Subject(s): Poor -- Services for -- United States -- Data processing | Poverty -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | HC79 .P6 E89 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000014481 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: red flags -- From poorhouse to database -- Automating welfare in the heartland -- High-tech homelessness in the city of angels -- The Allegheny algorithm -- The digital poorhouse -- Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and methods -- Endnotes -- Index.