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Marxism and Work in the AI Industry: Interview with James Steinhoff:

James Steinhoff is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He is interested in applying (and updating) the Labour Process Theory framework to analyze the production of AI and its automation with technologies such as automated machine learning (AutoML).…

Microwork in the global South, the motor of platform capitalism: interview with Phil Jones

Author of Work Without the Worker: Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism

Talk on Disinformation-for-Hire and Click Farming

With Jonathan Corpus Ong and Rafael Grohmann

Is fair work possible on cloudwork platforms?

The following op-ed is based on the results of the Fairwork Cloudwork 2021 report by Kelle Howson, Hannah Johnston, Nancy Salem, Robbie Warin, Fabian Ferrari, Yihan Zhu, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Daniel Arubayi, Srujana Katta, Shelly Steward, Matthew Cole,…

Click Farm Platforms: how they work

Ongoing research in Brazil conducted by DigiLabour Research Lab

Worker-Owned Platforms and Other Experiences in Brazil

One of the initiatives is led by Homeless Workers Movement

Hacking Diversity in Tech

Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of the book Hacking Diversity

Data and Platform Co-ops in Smart City Citizenship: interview with Igor Calzada

He launched the book Smart City Citizenship

Reorganizing work, not just getting AI to making decisions: interview with Aaron Benanav

“I am interested in how digital protocols might make it possible for workers to coordinate across many different workplaces”

AI, whiteness, and capitalism: interview with Yarden Katz

He refuses to take “AI” as a ready-made concept