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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile By Virginia Eubanks Hardcover
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- Book Title
- Automating Inequality : How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 1 in
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Poverty & Homelessness
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- 5.7 in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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WINNER: The 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice The New York Times Book Review: "Riveting." Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary." Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body "A must-read." Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year." Cory Doctorow: "Indispensable." A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination--and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems--rather than humans--control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
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St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250074312
ISBN-13
9781250074317
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Automating Inequality : How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poverty & Homelessness
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Length
8.6 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Hc79.P6e89 2018
Reviews
"Virginia Eubanks' new book shocks us with her gripping stories of the emerging surveillance state for managing poverty in the U.S. today. From single mothers on welfare, to homeless individuals on the streets, to parents suspected of child neglect, the 'digital poorhouse,' as Eubanks calls it, increasingly extends its web of surveillance from classifying to predicting the poor and their behavior, not so much to aid as to manage, discipline and punish them for the poverty society imposes on them. We learn once again that technology might be neutral but not the choices the powerful make to use it. Read this book and join with Eubanks in pushing back against the surveillance state and the injustice it sustains." -- Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY; Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center "Income inequality relies on the lie of the neutrality of efficiency over the value of our common humanity. Automating Inequality exposes the deadly consequences of this plan and suggests another path. That Virginia Eubanks is our guide--a person so capable, ethical and whipsmart--is a rare combination indeed." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain dominated by the ancient credo of the poor law, obsessed with the exclusion and punishment of the neediest in our communities." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor, "Income inequality feeds the lie that the only way for some to survive is brutish division rather than the slower work of assimilation and shared responsibility. Automating Inequality suggests another path. That Virginia Eubanks is our guide--a person so capable, ethical, and whip-smart with the understanding of how applications of technology affect us all, is a rare combination indeed." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain dominated by the ancient credo of the poor law, obsessed with the exclusion and punishment of the neediest in our communities." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor, "Automating Inequality is one of the most important recent books for understanding the social implications of information technology for marginalized populations in the US . As we begin discussing the potential for AI to harm people, Eubanks's work should be required reading." -- Ethan Zuckerman, Director, Center for Civic Media, MIT "Income inequality relies on the lie of the neutrality of efficiency over the value of our common humanity. Automating Inequality exposes the deadly consequences of this plan and suggests another path. That Virginia Eubanks is our guide--a person so capable, ethical and whipsmart--is a rare combination indeed." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain dominated by the ancient credo of the poor law, obsessed with the exclusion and punishment of the neediest in our communities." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor "Startling and brilliant... As Eubanks makes crystal clear, automation coupled with the new technologies of ethical abandonment and instrumental efficiency threaten not only the lives of millions who are viewed as disposable but also democracy itself. If you want to understand how this digital nightmare is reaching deep into the institutions that attempt to regulate our lives, and how you can challenge it, this is a must read." --Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy "Virginia Eubanks' new book shocks us with her gripping stories of the emerging surveillance state for managing poverty in the U.S. today. From single mothers on welfare, to homeless individuals on the streets, to parents suspected of child neglect, the 'digital poorhouse,' as Eubanks calls it, increasingly extends its web of surveillance from classifying to predicting the poor and their behavior, not so much to aid as to manage, discipline and punish them for the poverty society imposes on them. We learn once again that technology might be neutral but not the choices the powerful make to use it. Read this book and join with Eubanks in pushing back against the surveillance state and the injustice it sustains." -- Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY; Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, "Eubanks and her work are a rare combination: the match of a person so capable, ethical, whip-smart and spirited to lead us into an understanding of the applications of technology that will affect us all. Poverty has always affected us all--whether or not we choose to engage with this consciousness or its many concrete, identifiable, or nuanced consequences. This book has the gift of timing." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain dominated by the ancient credo of the poor law, obsessed with the exclusion and punishment of the neediest in our communities." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor, "Income inequality relies on the lie of the neutrality of efficiency over the value of our common humanity. Automating Inequality exposes the deadly consequences of this plan and suggests another path. That Virginia Eubanks is our guide--a person so capable, ethical and whipsmart--is a rare combination indeed." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain dominated by the ancient credo of the poor law, obsessed with the exclusion and punishment of the neediest in our communities." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor, "Income inequality relies on the lie of the neutrality of efficiency over the value of our common humanity. Automating Inequality exposes the deadly consequences of this plan and suggests another path. That Virginia Eubanks is our guide--a person so capable, ethical and whipsmart--is a rare combination indeed." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family "In this illuminating book, Eubanks shows us that in spite of cosmetic reforms, our policies for the disadvantaged remain dominated by the ancient credo of the poor law, obsessed with the exclusion and punishment of the neediest in our communities." -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor "Startling and brilliant... As Eubanks makes crystal clear, automation coupled with the new technologies of ethical abandonment and instrumental efficiency threaten not only the lives of millions who are viewed as disposable but also democracy itself. If you want to understand how this digital nightmare is reaching deep into the institutions that attempt to regulate our lives, and how you can challenge it, this is a must read." --Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy "Virginia Eubanks' new book shocks us with her gripping stories of the emerging surveillance state for managing poverty in the U.S. today. From single mothers on welfare, to homeless individuals on the streets, to parents suspected of child neglect, the 'digital poorhouse,' as Eubanks calls it, increasingly extends its web of surveillance from classifying to predicting the poor and their behavior, not so much to aid as to manage, discipline and punish them for the poverty society imposes on them. We learn once again that technology might be neutral but not the choices the powerful make to use it. Read this book and join with Eubanks in pushing back against the surveillance state and the injustice it sustains." -- Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY; Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Table of Content
Author's Note Introduction: Red Flags 1: From Poorhouse to Database 2: Automating Welfare in the Heartland 3: High-Tech Homelessness in the City of Angels 4: The Allegheny Algorithm 5: The Digital Poorhouse Conclusion: Dismantling the Digital Poorhouse Acknowledgments Sources and Methods Endnotes Index
Copyright Date
2018
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2017-036194
Dewey Decimal
362.560285
Dewey Edition
23
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