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Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control (Law, Meaning, and Violence Series) by Gilliom, John , 1960- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control (Law, Meaning, and Violence Series) about?

<p>Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of the 1980s. Workers, judges, and politicians divided over whether it was an unnecessary and unconstitutional program of surveillance or an effective and appropriate new weapon in the anti-drug arsenal. When the dust had settled, the new technique was widely used and had been strongly approved by the United States Supreme Court. This raises the fundamental question: Why was the momentum behind testing so strong and the opposition to testing so ineffective?</p> <p>Drawing on theories of ideological hegemony and legal mobilization, John Gilliom begins the search for answers with an examination of how the imagery of a national drug crisis served as the legitimating context for the introduction of testing. <i>Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law</i> then moves beyond the specific history of testing and frames the new policy within a broader transformation of social control policy seen by students of political economy, society, and culture. The book cites survey research among skilled workers and analyzes court opinions to highlight the sharp

Author

Gilliom, John , 1960-

Publisher

University Of Michigan Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472104932

Subjects

Management, Business