Tracing the change in the concepts of development and labor in the digital age, and analyzing strategies of developing countries and workers to recalibrate the current state of inequity.
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Labor and Development in the Digital Age
On Web 3.0 and the Promise of Alternatives: Big Tech by any Other Name…
People have been taking to Web 3.0 while looking for alternatives to dominant forms of predatory and destructive capitalism. But does Web 3.0 have the same power structures and logics that govern Big Tech?
- Big Tech Watch
Glass Half-full? Where the Fight for Worker Equity in the Digital Economy is Headed
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.
- Big Tech Watch
Worker-Led Alternatives: A Line of Hope for New Platform Futures
Exploring workers’ struggle to reclaim the means of self-determination, resisting the steady march of dominant platforms.
- The New Precariat
Precarity in Times of Pandemic
Covid-19 and the crisis in India’s informal labor markets.
- The New Precariat