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Academic Article
Data & SocietyD&S Fellow Mark Latonero and colleagues at USC Annenberg recently released a report on technology and labor trafficking. From USC Annenberg: Migrant workers who are isolated from technology and social networks are more v... Read moreFebruary 2015 -
Longform
Center for Popular EconomicsBrian Callaci looks at how the pharmaceutical company business model perpetuates harms. Read on Center for Popular EconomicsNovember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores historical employment discrimination, and investigates the growing use of public data, algorithms, surveillance, and outcome-oriented scoring systems within work environments. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explains how a growing reliance on automated systems, algorithms, and existing networks systematically benefits some at the expense of others -- often without employers even recognizing the biases of such mechanisms. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer provides an overview of the Arts and Crafts Movement and DIY culture and connects them to the recent rise of 3D printing as techno-utopianism while investigating labor practices and structural inequalities in the movements. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer raises critical questions about what fair labor looks like in a networked world and discusses how existing mechanisms of labor protection do not address these contemporary work scenarios. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines networked technologies and analyzes how they are used for widespread workplace surveillance in a variety of employment sectors. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer discusses the influence of science-fiction on intelligent systems and examines the growing ways in which AI technology is changing and disrupting human labor. Read moreOctober 2014 -
op-ed
The Los Angeles TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Karen Levy discusses mandating electronic monitoring of truck drivers as a way to address unsafe practices in trucking. She argues that "electronic monitoring is an incomplete solution t... Read on The Los Angeles TimesJuly 2014 -
op-ed
The Los Angeles TimesD&S fellow Karen Levy writes about the nation's trucking system and the need for reform. Based on her three years of research around trucker's compliance with federal regulations, she argues the changes must address root ec... Read on The Los Angeles TimesJuly 2014