... answer the question set, I think it is important to note that surveillance is nothing new. As Ball (2003) notes, "it has always been at the heart of capitalist work and organisation". For centuries people have had to identify themselves or have been the subjects of observation, but up until the twentieth century this would usually have been for highly specific purposes. Over the last hundred years we have seen that visibility has become "a social and political issue in a new way". (David Lyon (1) Surveillance studies: Understanding visibility, mobility and the phenetic fix, 2002, P.2) Worker monitoring is also not a new practice. "The introduction of the factory system constituted an important change in the degree of social control which could be exercised over workers, primarily through new possibilities for visual supervision". (C ) Frederick Taylor's scientific management approach bought about an even more significant change in work monitoring ...

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