This new primer shows that understanding how AI will affect work requires examining how work is organized, how industries are structured, and whose and what work is valued. Read more

Examining the risks that financial wellness may pose to workers and society, this report asks: Who ultimately benefits from framing financial status as a matter of health? Read more

In “Establishing Vigilant Care: Data Infrastructures and the Black Birthing Experience,” Data & Society researcher Joan Mukogosi explains why many prominent interventions to this crisis are neglecting other risks to Black people. Read more

While platforms provide a new way for professionals to find patients, diminish administrative load, and earn additional income, providers have also increasingly been recruited into labor arrangements that mirror those of other gigified sectors like service and delivery work. Read more

Keywords of the Datafied State is a collection of essays on concepts that are of central significance to understanding the relationship between government and technology, and how it differs across geographies. Read more

Our new report “The Formalization of Social Precarities” explains “how gig work fits into — and is exacerbated by — existing social issues,” and how cultures' norms around race and caste shape the parameters of work. Read on Rest of World

In Challenging Worker Datafication, D&S Labor Futures Researcher Alexandra Mateescu provides an introduction to different recent approaches to worker data, and explores ongoing questions, critiques, and possibilities. Read more

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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