An award-winning reporter documents case after case of the computer's threat to our privacy, legal procedures, and the democratic process, providing clear evidence of the present and probable dangers of computer technology

The Rise of the Computer State

Computers & Technology

Burnham, David

Business Technology

Random House, Inc.

Fine investigative reporting by a well-known gadfly (Silkwood died on her way to meet Burnham). This is an ugly recounting of selective enforcement, leaks of information about politicians, bribery, corruption, and the cancerous growth (now 123,000 employees) of this least accountable of US law enforcement agencies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS

Test Preparation

Professional

Random House]

Rise of Computer State

Vintage

Exposes the operations of the United States' most powerful bureaucratic institution, from its prosecution of tax criminals, to its abuse of law-abiding citizens, to the astonishing extent of its computer problems

A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power

Ephesians : Lessons for body growth: A discussion guide for home Bible study

Reference

MOODY PRESS *

Luke: A doctor examines the life of Christ; a discussion guide for home Bible study

The Social Worker Speaks charts the motivations, work activities and attitudes of social workers across the country from 1904 to 1989. The book is about workers in the public sector (from Poor Law to Social Services Departments), probation and workers in the voluntary field (including early century philanthropic visiting societies as well as specialist societies such as the Children's Society and the NSPCC). Where possible accounts by and the words and thoughts of social workers themselves are used. Since the war, histories of social work have concentrated on practice theory and methods, developments instigated by legislation, university training and professional status, but there has been little attention paid to who social workers were, what they believed, what they actually did, and what they thought of what they did. Also, individual social workers appearing in nearly all histories have been 'leaders' - managers, teachers or academics, with people who did the job on the front line accorded barely a mention. If part of the aim of this book is to remedy this partial coverage, another aim is to offer a more human history of social workers. There is too little celebration or humour in what has been published about the history of social workers; The Social Worker Speaks deliberately includes stories of how social workers behaved, their frustrations and triumphs, passions and occasional sins. So this is deliberately not a history of social work, but a history of social workers - the first of its kind.

The Social Worker Speaks

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Routledge

The Social Worker Speaks: A History of Social Workers Through the Twentieth Century

The Rise of the Computer State is a comprehensive examination of the ways that computers and massive databases are enabling the nation’s corporations and law enforcement agencies to steadily erode our privacy and manipulate and control the American people. This book was written in 1983 as a warning. Today it is a history. Most of its grim scenarios are now part of everyday life. The remedy proposed here, greater public oversight of industry and government, has not occurred, but a better one has not yet been found. While many individuals have willingly surrendered much of their privacy and all of us have lost some of it, the right to keep what remains is still worth protecting.

The Rise of the Computer State: The Threat to Our Freedoms, Our Ethics and our Democratic Process

Networking & Cloud Computing

Open Road Distribution

Dealing with performance indicators, this book is useful for first line managers, front line staff, as well as students, teachers, and service user representatives. It shows: how this system came about; how it works; what the impact has been; how they might make best use of it; and how it might be changed and improved in the future.

Only Get Better?: A guide to social services performance measurement processes for front line staff

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Russell House Publishing

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