Labor Tech Research Network
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We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
“I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”: Chinese literary sensation reaches U.S.
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“I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”: Chinese literary sensation reaches U.S.
Hu Anyan, a former courier who wrote a best-selling book about the grueling job of delivering packages, discusses life, technology, and the future of work.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”: Chinese literary sensation reaches U.S.
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Congratulations to @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social! More exciting research coming in our book series for MIT Press!
Very happy to announce that I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the publication of my forthcoming book The Platform Fix. 🥳
It will be part of their Labor & Technology series, edited by Winifred Poster. @labortechresearchnetwork.org
It will be part of their Labor & Technology series, edited by Winifred Poster. @labortechresearchnetwork.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Congratulations to @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social! More exciting research coming in our book series for MIT Press!
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HELLO me + @mcforelle.bsky.social + @carolinejack.bsky.social are co-editing a collected volume on TECH/MONEY! do you want yell about technology but also about finance and business models and stuff? do you have sooo many receipts? we want your proposals! find the CFP here: oddletters.com/tech-money/
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
HELLO me + @mcforelle.bsky.social + @carolinejack.bsky.social are co-editing a collected volume on TECH/MONEY! do you want yell about technology but also about finance and business models and stuff? do you have sooo many receipts? we want your proposals! find the CFP here: oddletters.com/tech-money/
Apply to POLICY ATTORNEY or SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR with Movement Talent
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October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Gilroy workers have started to package pots of marigolds to sell for #DiaDeLosMuertos altars. The pots weigh about 15 lbs. This is the busy season for these flowers and workers are laboring long hours. While flower prices have gone up, farm worker wages did not.
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Gilroy workers have started to package pots of marigolds to sell for #DiaDeLosMuertos altars. The pots weigh about 15 lbs. This is the busy season for these flowers and workers are laboring long hours. While flower prices have gone up, farm worker wages did not.
Congratulations to LaborTech Members Hector Beltrán and Hemangini Gupta!
Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Congratulations to LaborTech Members Hector Beltrán and Hemangini Gupta!
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A new brief by @datasociety.bsky.social @powerswitchaction.org and Coworker exposes how “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable more worker surveillance.
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The “Privacy” Trap
Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A new brief by @datasociety.bsky.social @powerswitchaction.org and Coworker exposes how “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable more worker surveillance.
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datasociety.net/library/the-...
United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout
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United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout
If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout
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Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:
U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
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October 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Hustle and Gig might have gotten optioned.
But Side Hustle Safety Net got me into a premiere!
Super excited to see gig work on the big screen in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune!
@ucpress.bsky.social @ipk.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @asaskat.bsky.social @labortechresearchnetwork.org
But Side Hustle Safety Net got me into a premiere!
Super excited to see gig work on the big screen in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune!
@ucpress.bsky.social @ipk.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @asaskat.bsky.social @labortechresearchnetwork.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Hustle and Gig might have gotten optioned.
But Side Hustle Safety Net got me into a premiere!
Super excited to see gig work on the big screen in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune!
@ucpress.bsky.social @ipk.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @asaskat.bsky.social @labortechresearchnetwork.org
But Side Hustle Safety Net got me into a premiere!
Super excited to see gig work on the big screen in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune!
@ucpress.bsky.social @ipk.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @asaskat.bsky.social @labortechresearchnetwork.org
Event: Workshop by the Association for Union Democracy:
Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop
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Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop
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Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop – Association for Union Democracy
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October 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Event: Workshop by the Association for Union Democracy:
Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop
uniondemocracy.org/democratic-r...
Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop
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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
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October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
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OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
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OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.
www.technologyreview.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts
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The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts
Updated September 2025. An overview of current U.S. public policy that regulates employers’ use of digital workplace technologies.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts
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Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home
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Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home
Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home
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Lawyers blamed "IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants."
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18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Lawyers blamed "IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants."
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Silicon Valley community college district buys workforce housing
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Silicon Valley community college district buys workforce housing - San José Spotlight
Dozens of Santa Clara County professors and administrative staff will be some of the first to move into affordable apartments reserved for community college employees, thanks to one school district’s ...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Silicon Valley community college district buys workforce housing
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