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Surveillance Capitalism in America (Hardcover)
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Surveillance Capitalism in America (Hardcover)
Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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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 public debate. Tech
giants like Google and Facebook are fueled by a continuous supply
of user data and digital exhaust. Surveillance is not just a side
effect of digital capitalism; it is the business model itself,
suggesting the emergence of a new and more rapacious mode of
capitalism: surveillance capitalism. But how much has capitalism
really changed? Surveillance Capitalism in America explores the
historical development of commercial surveillance long before
computers and suggests that surveillance has been central to
American capitalism since the nation's founding. Managers
surveilled labor, merchants surveilled consumers, and businesses
surveilled each other. Focusing on events in the United States, the
chapters in this volume examine the deep logic of modern
surveillance as a mode of rationalization, bureaucratization, and
social control from the early nineteenth century forward. Even
more, business surveillance has often involved collaborations with
the state, through favorable laws, policing, and information
sharing. The history of surveillance capitalism is thus the history
of technological, legal, and knowledge infrastructures built over
decades. Together, the chapters in this volume reveal the long arc
of surveillance capitalism, from the violent coercion of slave
labor to the seductions of target marketing.
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