The digital economy continues to be marked by deep power asymmetries between capital and labor. Work precarization, and opaque, inscrutable algorithmic regimes of management chip away at decent work conditions. Automation poses wicked conundrums for economic policy in the North and South alike.
How has the worker rights movement pushed back against the excesses brought forth by Big Tech? What battles are won, what remain, and what does the future hold? Experts weigh in.
Wresting power back from platform capitalism
Public sector workers and unions have an important part to play in shaping the digital society.
Asserting collective ownership rights over data is one of the most fundamental policy issues of our time.
How the Covid crisis may impact the future of labor markets across the global South
The hidden human labor behind the world’s most complex AI systems
Gig workers find themselves in a double bind as platforms respond to the crisis with piecemeal measures.
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