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The labor market remains very tight. Many talk about automation and needing less workers. The answer remains, we will need more but different kind of labor #labortech
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Getting 20% improvements on anything doesn't build a massive company. In the age of AI, improvement has to be 10X and higher. Companies like @WorkWhileJobs are crushing it and 10Xing labor productivity at every level. #10xGains #labortech #fintech
There are 3,200 tech companies tackling the cybersecurity data breach market (estimated losses of 12.5B in the US) and 8 companies tackling shift work absenteeism (estimated losses of 298B in the US) @WorkWhileJobs #labortech
La reducción de las desigualdades es un factor determinante para la consolidación de un mundo mejor.
@kmejoiom participó en el cierre de #Labortech 2.0, una iniciativa encaminada a impulsar el desarrollo social y económico de sus participantes.🧵1/3
Wir freuen uns, die Agilent 1290 Infinity 2 in unserem Labor willkommen zu heißen! Vollautomatische Probenauswertung für mehr Effizienz, Geschwindigkeit, Kosteneffektivität und Qualität. Schnellere Ergebnisse, höhere Zuverlässigkeit. #Agilent1290Infinity2 #Innovation #LaborTech
Read on how the work of #LaborTech board member A. Aneesh (@me_aneesh) informs a critique of voice-altering technology being offered by a silicon valley startup. @me_aneesh is the Incoming Director @uoregon's School of Global Studies & Languages
https://t.co/E80maPrbkw @guardian
Our next #LaborTech Speaker Series event will be this Friday, Aug 5, at 12-2pm EST. Albert Fox Cahn (@FoxCahn), Executive Director of @STOPSpyingNY, will be giving a talk titled "Suing Robocop: Lawyering Against Police Surveillance" followed by an extensive discussion.
We're extending our deadlines for the inaugural #LaborTech Book Award & Graduate Student Paper Award to 8/15/22!! We encourage you to consider submitting your work for consideration!
Guidelines:
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You can read more about Mara's (@maramills) work on their website by visiting the link below:
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#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #LaborTech
Through the inaugural #LaborTech Book & Graduate Student Paper Awards, we aim to reframe the conversation about technology & labor towards issues of #power, #inequality, & social justice, and incorporate themes of #feminism, anti-racism, & transnationalism
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As part of our launch as a nonprofit research network, #LaborTech is inaugurating two awards to honor works which have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact, and have advanced the knowledge about #labor & #technology in the global society
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Our next #LaborTech Speaker Series event will be Friday, June 3, at 11:00am-1:00pm EST. We have an incredible panel of scholar-activists featuring @sofyaaptekar, Bhumika Chauhan, @beccaroskill, and @NoraJWeber who will speak on "Labor Organizing On and Through Campus" (1)
#LaborTech member JS Tan is a graduate student at
@MIT, a former tech worker, and a member of Collective Action in Tech, a project to advance the tech worker movement.
In this @DissentMag article, he writes about worker mobilization in China.
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Organized by #LaborTech members Mira Wallis, Manuela Bojadžijev, and Moritz Altenried
with presentations by our board member, Rafael Grohmann (@grohmann_rafael) & our other members - Lilly Irani (@gleemie), Seda Guerses
#LaborTech Speaker Series (4/22, 11am-1pm EST US): Hee Rin Lee, Production Workers’ Experience with Collaborative Robots
Dr. Hee Rin Lee is an Asst. Prof. @michiganstateu working in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Please RSVP to Winnie <[email protected]> (2)
We're super excited to share news of #LaborTech member Lilly Irani's (@gleemie) new book, "Redacted", co-authored with Jesse Marx (@marxjesse), and published with @bordertallerCA. Find out more about the book at - https://t.co/qMXcYOGn8r
Book's on the way! Thanks to @bordertallerCA who took my and @gleemie's jokes, interviews and history lessons about public records and turned them into something pretty. Each one is being assembled by hand, a little work of art https://t.co/tkw2E7JFug
Listen to #LaborTech member Diane Wei Lewis speak at the upcoming Kempf Fund Lecture Series talk: Softwork: Gendered Labor and Computerization in Japan (Friday, 4/8/22) -
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Diane Wei Lewis is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at @WUSTL
#LaborTech acknowledges the ongoing struggles of the trans community and the vitality of protecting inclusive work cultures and practices that uplift trans people across the world. #TransDayOfVisibility
Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
As political attacks on trans people continue to surge through state legislatures, here are a few organizations to follow and actions we can all take to defend trans people.
#LaborTech member Fabián Prieto-Ñañez (@iguanapri) recently published an article titled "Assembling a Colombian cloned computer: National development and the transnational trade of electronics parts in the 1980s" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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