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

by John Gilliom

Book Overview

Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of the 1980s. Workers, judges, and politicians divided over whether it was an unnecessary and unconstitutional program of surveillance or an effective and appropriate new weapon in the anti-drug arsenal. When the dust had settled, the new technique was widely used and had been strongly approved by the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047208416X
• ISBN13: 9780472084166
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"