Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry
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Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

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Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

About this book

A theory-driven account of the stakes and knowledge-building practices of the resurgent labor movement from organizers across the gig economy and tech industry.

As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed political and technological assault on labor. But it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. The rank and file are coming from the precarious new “gig jobs” and drawing strength from a new class of worker who does the jobs that computers still cannot. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American collective movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action with new forms of organizing, new ways of association, and new ways of thinking and recombining labor organizing and research. 

To capture this growing class consciousness as it happens, the Capacitor Collective has conducted ten illuminating interviews with platform workers who are also organizers committed to connecting old motivations and new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition to imagine new ways to produce knowledge with and for workers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. PART 1
  6. Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry
  7. PART 2
  8. Mostafa Henaway : Immigrant Workers Centre (Montreal)
  9. Alex Hanna : Distributed AI Research Institute
  10. Krystal K and Phil : Turkopticon
  11. Tyler Sandness : Rideshare Drivers United
  12. Mikaiil Hussein and Peter Zschiesche : United Taxi Workers of San Diego
  13. RK : Upadhya Tech Workers Coalition (Bay Area)
  14. Erik H : Tech Workers Coalition (Seattle)
  15. Kate : Sim No Tech for Apartheid
  16. Milla Vodello : Amazon Worker Solidarity
  17. Qi Ge : Shenzhen V Fleet
  18. Cailean Gallagher : Workers ’ Observatory (Edinburgh)
  19. Epilogue
  20. Endnotes
  21. Contributors
  22. About Common Notions