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.
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The DataSyn team chronicles the stories of activists, workers, and even nation-states’ resistance to, and resilience against Big Tech.
- Big Tech Watch
- The New Precariat
In George Orwell’s 1984, the state used its absolute power to disrupt human connections, even to eliminate love. Are we now living in a real-world version of 1984 where Big Brother is Big Tech? What does this mean for the world of work and is resistance still possible?
- The New Precariat
Exploring workers’ struggle to reclaim the means of self-determination, resisting the steady march of dominant platforms.
- The New Precariat
Unpacking the overtures of the Chinese state against its home grown Big Tech companies.
- Big Tech Watch
In the platform economy, women in the beauty service industry are falling through the cracks exposed by the pandemic.
- Feminist Digitality
- The New Precariat
Platforms exert high levels of control over delivery workers. It’s time they took responsibility for workers’ wellbeing.
- The New Precariat
A feminist analysis of the working conditions of platform delivery workers.
- The New Precariat
Gig workers find themselves in a double bind as platforms respond to the crisis with piecemeal measures.
- Big Tech Watch
- The New Precariat