Book review: automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police and punish the poor by Virginia Eubanks

Russell-Prywata, Louise (2018) Book review: automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police and punish the poor by Virginia Eubanks. LSE Review of Books (02 Jul 2018). Website.

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In Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks outlines the life-and-death impacts of automated decision-making on public services in the USA through three case studies relating to welfare provision, homelessness and child protection services. Centralising the stories and experiences of her subjects with sensitivity while also drawing on statistical data, Eubanks offers a valuable and compelling contribution to discussions of inequality and poverty today, writes Louise Russell-Prywata.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/07/02...
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2018 09:33
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 17:55
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/91191

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