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Surveillance, electronic communications technologies and regulation
Author(s) -
Findlay Patricia,
McKinlay Alan
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2338.00277
Subject(s) - electronic surveillance , context (archaeology) , business , information and communications technology , value (mathematics) , empirical research , public relations , knowledge management , process management , risk analysis (engineering) , computer security , computer science , political science , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , world wide web , biology
The literature on workplace electronic surveillance is dominated by abstract theoretical discussions, while the limited empirical study of surveillance has been confined to manufacturing. This paper offers a corrective firstly by locating surveillance in its legal context, and secondly by considering surveillant practices in complex, professional and high‐value organisational settings.