Job/Security: A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry (Labor and Technology)

An illuminating assortment of candid interviews and pictures with staff in America’s burgeoning safety state.
In a world more and more below surveillance, this cutting-edge documentary collaboration turns the digital camera on the ever-expanding American safety state. Job/Safety bears photographic and narrative witness to the individuals tasked with safeguarding our fashionable world. In these uniquely revealing interviews and pictures, authors Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild assemble a multifaceted portrait of the labor of safety. They provide a close-up, in-depth have a look at what the near-ubiquitous enterprise of monitoring, guarding, and defending life and property in america means for the people who do the work, and for the society they ostensibly serve.
Representing a variety of views from inside this huge area, Job/Security measures women and men who work in homeland safety, border patrol, the key service, and emergency administration, amongst different fields. In candid phrases, these enforcers, critics, and targets of safety regimes describe their working lives—their jobs, routines, backgrounds, and households—in addition to their emotions about what they do. Their tales supply a uncommon glimpse into the interior complexities of safety work and recent perception into what the encroaching safety state is doing to America’s hearts and minds, one employee at a time, and to society at massive, on an intimately human scale.
Writer ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 13, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262048698
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262048699
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.92 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.71 x 10.25 inches