Overcoming Resistance to Surveillance: A Genealogy of the EAP Discourse
通过分析员工援助计划（EAP）话语，揭示其如何以治疗而非惩罚的名义，促使主管加强对员工绩效的监控，并最终导致员工因绩效不佳而面临失业风险。
Through an examination of employee assistance programs we address Foucault’s contention that the pervasive surveillance characteristic of disciplinary control is facilitated by a discourse claiming therapeutic rather than punitive aims. By characterizing poor job performance as evidence of substance abuse or other ‘behavioral-medical’ illness, the EAP discourse endeavors to overcome the reluctance of supervisors to identify poor performers, for whom job loss is the frequent consequence of failure to improve. Following Foucault’s view that power effects occur without express intention to exercise power, we analyze the web of institutional and professional disciplinary mechanisms that effect heightened supervisory surveillance.