Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control

摘要: Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during war on drugs of 1980s. Workers, judges, politicians divided over whether it was unnecessary unconstitutional program surveillance or effective appropriate weapon in anti-drug arsenal. When dust had settled, technique widely used been strongly approved by United States Supreme Court. This raises fundamental question: Why momentum behind so strong opposition to ineffective?Drawing theories ideological hegemony legal mobilization, John Gilliom begins search for answers with examination how imagery a national crisis served as legitimating context introduction testing. "Surveillance, Privacy, Law" then moves beyond specific history frames within broader transformation seen students political economy, society, culture. The book cites survey research among skilled workers analyzes court opinions highlight sharply polarized workplaces courthouses America. Although federal decisions show massive impassioned disagreement conservative Court comes down squarely Its ruling embraces technology, rejects arguments against testing, undermines future policies general surveillance."Surveillance, Law "portrays apparent triumph victory law-and-order movement stark loss values privacy autonomy. As one episode move toward battle employee disturbing questions about struggles revolutionary means control.John Professor Political Science, Ohio University.