Wendy Liu and Meredith Whittaker discuss how the COVID-19 shutdown is impacting workers and organizing in the technology industry. Read more

Why should you care about the restaurant industry? Data & Society Fellow Veronica Avila explores the consequences of this “alarmingly low-wage industry," its roots in slavery and servitude, and how some employers are using ... Read more

Mary L. Gray's talk is based on her latest book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, a collaboration with computer scientist Siddharth Suri. Ghost Work is a necessary and revelatory exp... Read more

Why has work become insecure? Historian Louis Hyman discusses the surprising origins of the “gig economy.”     Hyman’s latest book Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became... Read more