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Data and Democracy at Work (häftad, eng)
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An exploration of how major companies have used advanced information technologies to limit worker power, and how labor law reform could reverse that trend.
As our economy has shifted away from industrial production and service industries have become dominant, many of the nation''s largest employers are now in fields like retail, food service, logistics, and hospitalityThese companies have turned to data-driven surveillance technologies that operate over a vast distance, enabling cheaper oversight of massive numbers of workers. Data and Democracy at Work argues that companies often use new data-driven technologies as a power resource—or even a tool of class domination—and that our labor laws allow them to do so.
Employers have established broad rights to use technology to gather data on workers and their performance, to exclude others from accessing that data, and to use that data to refine their managerial strategiesThrough these means, companies have suppressed workers'' ability to organize and unionize, thereby driving down wages and eroding working conditions.
Labor law today encourages employer dominance in many ways—but labor law can also be reformed to become a tool for increased equityThe COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Great Resignation have indicated an increased political mobilization of the so-called essential workers of the pandemic, many of them service industry workers. This book describes the necessary legal reforms to increase workers'' associational power and democratize workplace data, establishing more balanced relationships between workers and employers and ensuring a brighter and more equitable future for us all.
As our economy has shifted away from industrial production and service industries have become dominant, many of the nation''s largest employers are now in fields like retail, food service, logistics, and hospitalityThese companies have turned to data-driven surveillance technologies that operate over a vast distance, enabling cheaper oversight of massive numbers of workers. Data and Democracy at Work argues that companies often use new data-driven technologies as a power resource—or even a tool of class domination—and that our labor laws allow them to do so.
Employers have established broad rights to use technology to gather data on workers and their performance, to exclude others from accessing that data, and to use that data to refine their managerial strategiesThrough these means, companies have suppressed workers'' ability to organize and unionize, thereby driving down wages and eroding working conditions.
Labor law today encourages employer dominance in many ways—but labor law can also be reformed to become a tool for increased equityThe COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Great Resignation have indicated an increased political mobilization of the so-called essential workers of the pandemic, many of them service industry workers. This book describes the necessary legal reforms to increase workers'' associational power and democratize workplace data, establishing more balanced relationships between workers and employers and ensuring a brighter and more equitable future for us all.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 304 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | MIT Press Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum | 2023-03-21 |
ISBN | 9780262545136 |
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- Häftad, 304, Engelska, MIT Press Ltd, 2023-03-21, 9780262545136
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 304
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag MIT Press Ltd
- Utgivningsdatum 2023-03-21
- ISBN 9780262545136