For example, in jail when you are first brought in you get your fingerprints and a mug shot taken and then you are taken for booking. You are then given your orange or striped jumpsuit and then you are officially a prisoner. .
The first thing you do when you go for a job interview is fill out an application. This is so employer's can look at your prior work history, weather or not you have been convicted of a crime, and references so they can check-up on you to see if you are telling the truth about the information you have provided. You also then fill out papers such as a W-2, W-4, and a 1040 form. If hired you are provided a clock number so when you come to work you can clock in for proof that you were there and so your hours can be documented. Foucault believes all these things are key because "surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration." (226).
To make surveillance even more easier, both institutions use partitioning to isolate different groups of people. In jails, cells are used. Each inmate is housed in a cell that is locked from the outside and they are not allowed out unless instructed to do so.
In a factory, when you enter you clock in and look at a schedule. The schedule tells you what specific job you are assigned to do and will specify somehow where that job is. Depending on what type of work you perform, will also be a factor to which are of the plant you are appointed. Once you enter that "workspace" and you start your assigned job, you are not allowed to leave that "workspace" unless it is break time, you are instructed to do so, or your specific task is complete. Everything you need to do that job is usually located in that specific area you were assigned to go, so there is no need to wander.
This leads to the issue of "discipline". Foucault stated that, "disciplines are techniques for assuring the ordering of human multiplicities." In both the workplace and in jail there are both human ways and electronic ways of control.