D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang explore "the significant role of worker motivations and regional political environments on the social and economic outcomes of automation" in this report. Read more

Sareeta Amrute takes an ethnographic approach to the work and private experiences of Indian IT coders in Berlin. Read on Duke University Press

D&S Researcher Alex Rosenblat examines how Uber’s app design and deployment redistributes management functions to semiautomated and algorithmic systems, as well as to consumer ratings systems, creating ambiguity around who ... Read on Harvard Business Review

D&S Fellow Sorelle Friedler and D&S Affiliate Ifeoma Ajunwa argue in this essay that well settled legal doctrines that prohibit discrimination against job applicants on the basis of sex or race dictate an examination of... Read on SSRN

This primer explores historical employment discrimination, and investigates the growing use of public data, algorithms, surveillance, and outcome-oriented scoring systems within work environments. Read more

This 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 more

This 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 more