Lauer, Josh (Editor)
Lipartito, Kenneth (Editor)
University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English
Edition Details: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
Physical Details: 270
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.
...MoreReview Dolores E. Janiewski (2023) Review of "Surveillance Capitalism in America". Technology and Culture (pp. 230-232).
Chapter Meg Leta Jones (2021) Chapter 9. Surveillance Capitalism Online: Cookies, Notice and Choice, and Web Privacy. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Dan Guadagnolo (2021) Chapter 8. Why Did Uptown Go Down in Flames? Uptown Cigarettes and the Targeted Marketing Crisis. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Jeremy Milloy (2021) Chapter 7. High Priority: Business's War on Drugs and the Expansion of Surveillance in the United States. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Zotte, Jennifer Le (2021) Chapter 6. Seeing Straight: Policing Sexualities in 1930s Manhattan Nightclubs. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Megan Elias (2021) Chapter 5. The Watchful Gaze Behind the Welcoming Smile: Surveilling the Guest in American Hotels in the Interwar Period. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Daniel Robert (2021-10-01) Chapter 4. Mystery Shoppers and Self-Monitors: Managing Emotional Labor to Improve the Corporate Image. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Pietruska, Jamie L. (2021) Chapter 3. The Case of the Competing Pinkertons: Managing Reputation Through the Paperwork and Bureaucracy of Surveillance. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Popp, Richard K. (2021) Chapter 2. The Information Bazaar: Mail-Order Magazines and the Gilded Age Trade in Consumer Data. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
Chapter Cameron Black; Rosenthal, Caitlin Chapter 1. Enslaved Watchmen: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Jamaica and the British Atlantic World. In: Surveillance Capitalism in America.
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