Surveillance, power and modernity : bureaucracy and discipline from 1700 to the present day
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Surveillance, power and modernity : bureaucracy and discipline from 1700 to the present day
Polity Press, 1994, c1990
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published in 1990 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers" -- T.p.verso
"First published in paperback 1994" -- T.p.verso
Bibliography: p. 228-237
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As a result of the writings of Foucault, surveillance has come to be seen as a phenomenon of major importance in modern societies. But there are few, if any, studies which relate the concept of surveillance to that of bureaucracy, thus connecting Foucault to Max Weber. Dandeker's text breaks new ground in re-examining the framework of Weber's analysis of bureaucracy in the light of problems of surveillance. The author also provides a critique of a variety of other theories of the significance of bureaucracy in the modern world. The core of the book is concerned to offer a detailed analysis of the use of bureaucratic surveillance in the state and the economy. The author gives particular attention to the role of warfare in the expansion of surveillance. The text brings together problems that ordinarily are treated in substantial separation from one another, including analyses of staff and line in organization theory, military service and the formation of prisons and asylums.
Table of Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements.
1. Bureaucracy, Surveillance and Modern Society.
2. Surveillance: Basic Concepts and Dimensions.
3. Military Power, Capitalism and Surveillance.
4. Bureaucratic Surveillance in a 'Society of Strangers':.
The State and Social Control in Modern Capitalism.
5. Capitalism, Surveillance and the Modern Business Enterprise.
6. Conclusion: Capitalism, Surveillance and Modernity.
Bibliography.
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