Labor Tech Research Network

We are an interdisciplinary group of over 650 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. 🐘: @[email protected]

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

Hi friends,

We are shutting down our account here. We're on Bluesky (labortech), Mastodon (labortech @ union [dot] place), Instagram (@ labortechgroup), and LinkedIn.

In solidarity,
The Labor Tech Research Network

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

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.

https://t.co/7THdLm2zeo

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

New book!

Cyberboss:The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work by Craig Gent

https://t.co/OMG9Ptdxlv

[Samantha Dalal @SamanthaDalal]

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

[Milagros Miceli @MilagrosMiceli]

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: https://t.co/AJBS6EajbV

Speakers🧵👇

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza

https://t.co/r6Yw5u8nsn

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working

https://t.co/P1aIUt07zs

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

Job: Tenure-Track Faculty in Digital Media - Open Rank (Georgia Tech)

https://t.co/DCyHG8KTU1

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

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: https://t.co/ZSD45dyfa6

To submit: https://t.co/Z7FaujYcAC

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

"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."

https://t.co/CZrPrDeTBm

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

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.

[Stanford PACS @StanfordPACS]

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: https://t.co/cFfD6qXPzQ

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

New book from LaborTech member Elizabeth Chiarello!

Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis

https://t.co/VN2CAK5rny

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

Did you know LinkedIn is collecting user data to train their AI systems?

To opt out, click here: https://t.co/EHCK4Ln6s7

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

New publication from LaborTech members Devika Narayan and Benjamin Shestakofsky!

"Relationships That Matter: Four Perspectives on AI, Work, and Organizations"

https://t.co/RPcrUqmRvW

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

New publication from LaborTech member Azer Kılıç!

"Universal Basic Income as a Response to Automation? Attitudes of Human Translators Facing Neural Machine Translation"

https://t.co/oZuX3sr4uW

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

New book from LaborTech member Tom Boellstorff and co-author Braxton Soderman

Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie

https://t.co/aUNzYqNHst

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

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

https://t.co/Il9IIpSe9w

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

Walmart Warehouse Workers Win First Union in Canada

https://t.co/shIeqNnfEw

[Labor Tech Research Network @labortechgroup]

How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

https://t.co/RphF7MasUH