Labor Tech Research Network

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The NLRB has ruled that employers can't tell workers that forming a union will hurt their relationship with management. This ruling overturns a precedent established in 1985 and deals another blow to the union-busting playbook. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

New book! Cyberboss:The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work by Craig Gent versobooks.com/products/2958-…

Hi friends! I’m on the academic job market this year :) I’m a critical participatory design researcher who builds pathways for communities to participate in the design, monitoring, and reg of workplace tech. Please lmk if there are positions you think I’d be a good fit for <3

Last panel of this year's talk series! We'll discuss GenAI labor's impacts and how translators, artists and writers are forced into unpaid data work. 🗓️Monday, Nov 11, 9:00 – 11:30 am PT 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET 6:00 – 7:30 pm CET RSVP: events.zoom.us/ev/AoEkvePmTHA… Speakers🧵👇

‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza wired.com/story/cisco-di…

Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working restofworld.org/2024/amazon-ka…

Job: Tenure-Track Faculty in Digital Media - Open Rank (Georgia Tech) careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/CA…

CFP: A session at the 9th SISEC Conference titled "Social Media as Tools for Resisting and Exposing Precarious Work Conditions in Contemporary Global Capitalism" For more info: sisec.it/wp-content/upl… To submit: sisec.it

"Many workers have said that a big sticking point is bringing back pensions, which Boeing hasn’t offered to anyone hired since a 2014 contract ratification. Instead of pensions, the company had offered improvements to those employees’ 401(k) plans." substack.perfectunion.us/p/boeing-worke…

NEW: Salesforce invented a new way for companies to make money, and we're paying the price. Everything is a subscription now. Printers, refrigerators, and even cars make you pay monthly fees. So you’re forced to rent the things you already own, while greedy execs get rich.

Next up in our TCP Speaker Series, @HZeavin of @ucbhistory joins us to explore how midcentury metaphors of "hot" and "cold" mothers shaped psychological studies, media theory, and the modern discourse on parenting, race, and neurodivergence. RSVP to join: eventbrite.com/e/technology-c…

New book from LaborTech member Elizabeth Chiarello! Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Did you know LinkedIn is collecting user data to train their AI systems? To opt out, click here: linkedin.com/mypreferences/…

New publication from LaborTech members Devika Narayan and Benjamin Shestakofsky! "Relationships That Matter: Four Perspectives on AI, Work, and Organizations" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

New publication from LaborTech member Azer Kılıç! "Universal Basic Income as a Response to Automation? Attitudes of Human Translators Facing Neural Machine Translation" doi.org/10.1177/089692…

New book from LaborTech member Tom Boellstorff and co-author Braxton Soderman Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549509/…

MCF Summer School series: a virtual exploration of Dr. Angela Davis’s powerful book Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement caseygrants-14489270.hs-sites.com/freedom-is-a-c…

Walmart Warehouse Workers Win First Union in Canada labornotes.org/2024/10/walmar…

How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…