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Instruments of Surveillance Welfare : Computerizing Unemployment and Health in 1960s and 1970s Sweden
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- Dussauge, Isabelle, 1978- (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Tema teknik och social förändring,Filosofiska fakulteten
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- Peralta, Julia, 1971- (author)
- KTH,Teknik- och vetenskapshistoria,Univ Örebro, Swedish Inst Disabil Res, SE-70182 Örebro, Sweden,Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Örebro University, Sweden; Division of History of Science and Technology, KTH, Sweden
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- Berlin, Germany : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2011
- 2011
- English.
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In: History of Nordic Computing 3. - Berlin, Germany : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642233159 - 9783642233142 - 9783642270192 ; , s. 56-64
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- The object of this paper is the role of computerization in the establishment of a specific form of “surveillance welfare” after World War II. Was computerization used as a technology of mass-welfaring to produce a governable population in the frame of an expanding welfare state? Large-scale welfare practices such as health screenings and databasing of the unemployed seem to have a common purpose: making the population into a governable, partially self-regulating, collective body–a welfare body. The paper analyzes the use of computers in the implementation of regional health screenings in the 1960s and the 1970s and in the transformation of (un)employment procedures in the 1970s as two sites for the exercise of state control in post-WWII Sweden.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Teknikhistoria (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History of Technology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Control
- health screenings
- history
- unemployment policy
- welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
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- ref (subject category)
- kon (subject category)
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