Eubanks, Virginia, 1972-

Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor / Virginia Eubanks. - First Edition. - 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: red flags -- From poorhouse to database -- Automating welfare in the heartland -- High-tech homelessness in the city of angels -- The Allegheny algorithm -- The digital poorhouse -- Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and methods -- Endnotes -- Index.

9781250074317 (hardcover)

2017036194


Poor--Services for--Data processing.--United States
Poverty--United States.

HC79.P6 / E89 2017

362.5/60285