Wellness Capitalism: Employee Health, the Benefits Maze, and Worker Control explores how employee wellness has been promoted in the US through public policies and government support, and how this has led to a rapidly expanding, data-collecting industry. Read more

This report by Health & Data researchers Livia Garofalo, Amanda Lenhart, Ireti Akinrinade and Joan Mukogosi explores how essential workers reacted to, and in some cases worked around, public health surveillance in their workplaces, set up in response to COVID-19. Read more

In this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly invisible to customers: third-party (3P) sellers. Read more

The rise of data-centric technologies is an opportunity for the labor and racial justice movements to build new bridges. Read on Points

A conversation hosted by Data & Society’s Labor Futures initiative about the hidden relational dynamics that shape how we shop today. Read more

The doorstep has emerged as the new physical locale of consumption — the threshold at which purchased products become personal property. In this transformation, the porch has become a contested space: it is at once private prop... Read more

On Thursday, April 14th, 2022, Dr. Julia Ticona discussed her new book Left to Our Own Devices at Data & Society’s Book Forum Series with Labor Futures Program Director Aiha Nguyen and Director of Research Jenna Burrell.   Read more

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A discussion with researcher Alexandra Mateescu on care work and the gig economy in the United States and Spain that also touches on Mateescu's recent report: Electronic Visit Verification. Read on Gig Podcast