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Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks.

By: Eubanks, Virginia, 1972- [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.
Contents:
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.
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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.

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