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The Driverless Report from sociologist Steve Viscelli, in partnership with Working Partnerships USA and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, provides an in-depth analysis of how technology, labor practices, and public […]
In the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s report The Future of Warehouse Work, scholars Beth Gutelius and Nik Theodore discuss how technology in warehouses likely won’t cause dramatic job loss, but […]
In the Roosevelt Institute report Beyond Automation, law professor Brishen Rogers argues that information technology, not automation, is the greatest threat to workers today because it grants companies outsized power […]
Technological changes in the workplace are increasing productivity and opportunities for some American workers, displacing others, and requiring many to develop new skills. At the same time, demographic changes suggest […]
At the 2019 Data for Black Lives conference panel session “Black People vs. Robots: Reparations and Workers Rights in the Age of Automation,” panelists discussed the impact of automation in […]
Few studies attempt to demonstrate whether and how systemic racial inequality might form on the web. I use racial formation theory to conceptualize how race is represented, and systematically reproduced […]
From 1965 to 1975 the legendary Silicon Valley company Fairchild Semiconductor operated a state-of-the-art integrated circuit manufacturing plant in Shiprock, New Mexico on Navajo land. In the face of concerns […]
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash […]
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today’s digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of […]
As digital labour becomes more widespread across the uneven geographies of race, gender, class and ability, and as histories of colonialism and inequality get drawn into these forms of labour, […]
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, […]