Brishen Rogers

Data and Democracy at Work (eBook, ePUB)

Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 hospitality. These 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 strategies. Through 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 equity. The 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262373364
• Artikelnr.: 64210202

Autorenporträt

Brishen Rogers is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. His recent scholarship has been published in leading law reviews including the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. He has also written for the Boston Review, the New York Times, Onlabor.org, and the Law & Political Economy Blog, or lpeblog.org. Professor Rogers' scholarship has also been cited in landmark decisions by the California Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Technology, the Service Transition, and the New Working Class 13
2 The Legal Construction of Workplace Neoliberalism 35
3 Inductive Knowledge and Digital Taylorism 57
4 Workplace Privacy and Associational Power 81
5 Data, Fissuring, and Consolidation 105
6 Data and Economic Democracy 131
Afterword: Law and the Technological Mundane 157
Notes 161
Selected Bibliography 239
Index 267