Job/security : a composite portrait of the expanding American security industry / Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild ; foreword and afterword by Winifred R. Poster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodwin, Danny, author.

Schwarzschild, Edward, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Poster, Winifred, writer of foreword, writer of afterword.

Series:

Labor and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security sector--United States.

Security sector.

Internal security--United States.

Internal security.

Law enforcement--United States.

Law enforcement.

Private security services--United States.

Private security services.

Physical Description:

xiv, 196 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Aims to illuminate the lives of an expanding yet heretofore understudied group of working people increasingly central to the US security industry"-- Provided by publisher.

"In a world increasingly under surveillance, this documentary collaboration turns the camera on the ever-expanding American security state. Job/Security bears photographic and narrative witness to the people tasked with safeguarding our modern world. In these revealing interviews and photographs, authors Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild assemble a multifaceted portrait of the labor of security. They offer a close-up, in-depth look at what the near-ubiquitous business of monitoring, guarding, and protecting life and property in the United States means for the individuals who do the work, and for the society they ostensibly serve. Representing a wide range of perspectives from inside this vast field, Job/Security features men and women who work in homeland security, border patrol, the secret service, and emergency management, among other fields. In candid terms, these enforcers, critics, and targets of security regimes describe their working lives--their jobs, routines, backgrounds, and families--as well as their feelings about what they do. Their stories offer a rare glimpse into the internal complexities of security work and fresh insight into what the encroaching security state is doing to America's hearts and minds, one worker at a time, and to society at large, on an intimately human scale." -- Adapted from publisher's description.

Contents:

Foreword / Winifred R. Poster

Beginnings : security in the fatherland / Edward Schwarzschild

Learning to see security / Danny Goodwin

Homeland security and the military / Dan Izzo, Eyal Press, Pablo Arroyo, Terri Merz, and James Vizzard

Portfolio : simulations

Border patrol / Adrian Aizpuru, Victor Manjarrez, Fancisco Cantú, and Carla Provost

Portfolio : border studies

CIA, FBI, Secret Service / Jim Steiner, Diana Bolsinger, Fatema Ahmad, Hasan Elahi, and Larry Cunningham

Portfolio : constructions

Emergency management / Cyndi Mellen, DeeDee Bennett Gayle, John Delaney, and Chauncia Willis

Afterword / Winifred R. Poster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780262048699

0262048698

OCLC:

1410453296

Publisher Number:

90101219155