The author focuses on three sets of literature.
I. The first one based on how profiling of poor and working class is happening. For which, she checks out secondary data from different newspapers about relevant issues that affected the poor in the United States. She even did great research to find out how poor houses emerged and how they were maintained during the nineteenth century. for example, she quotes 1879, the New York Times report, which alleges a 'poor house ring', who were selling bodies of the deceased residents of the house of the industry to country physicians for dissection"
II. The second set of literature is based on contemporary databases and its socio-political consequences. She calls them ‘digital poor houses'. According to her deep research on this, she asserts that “the digital poor house denies access to shared resources. It asks invasive and traumatizing questions. It makes it difficult to understand how government bureaucracy works, who has access to your information, and how they use it".
III. The third set of literature looks into the historical connection of poor houses, eligibility, blame and modern databases about poor and working class. Through this historical analysis, she explains how the poor and working class are always kept suspicious about being potential roads and criminals. She gives plenty of examples of how the poor and the marginalised, who mostly belongs to black off Latin races, being systematically kept apart from the welfare schemes and benefits through the rigorous, stigmatising process of proving themselves that they are poor.
