Overseers of the Poor
Subtitle: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780226293608
Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Political control & freedoms; Political science & theory; Poverty; Private, property, family law; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Constitutional; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Political Science / Social Services & Welfare; General; Electronic surveillance; Government information; Law and legislation; Public welfare; United States
First sentence: IN THE WINTER OF 1915, the following reports were filed as part of the home examinations required for applicants to the Mother's Pension in Muskingham County, Ohio: Mrs. Hooper lives on the top of Owen's Hill in a two story frame house.