Surveillance Capitalism in America / / ed. by Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito.

Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 b/w
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Surveillance Under Capitalism
  • Chapter 1. Enslaved Watchmen: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Jamaica and the British Atlantic World
  • Chapter 2. The Information Bazaar: Mail- Order Magazines and the Gilded Age Trade in Consumer Data
  • Chapter 3. The Case of the Competing Pinkertons: Managing Reputation Through the Paperwork and Bureaucracy of Surveillance
  • Chapter 4. Mystery Shoppers and Self- Monitors: Managing Emotional Labor to Improve the Corporate Image
  • Chapter 5. The Watchful Gaze Behind the Welcoming Smile: Surveilling the Guest in American Hotels in the Interwar Period
  • Chapter 6. Seeing Straight: Policing Sexualities in 1930s Manhattan Nightclubs
  • Chapter 7. High Priority: Business’s War on Drugs and the Expansion of Surveillance in the United States
  • Chapter 8. Why Did Uptown Go Down in Flames? Uptown Cigarettes and the Targeted Marketing Crisis
  • Chapter 9. Surveillance Capitalism Online: Cookies, Notice and Choice, and Web Privacy
  • Afterword
  • NOTES
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS