New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.

A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...

Anthropologist David Graeber’s theory of BS jobs provides a critical window into why modern work is so often so soul-sucking.

While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for a Research & Policy Associate in the Low-Wage Work Team.

This article draws on digital ethnographic fieldwork to examine how the pandemic-induced shift to remote work prompted workers at a London tech start-up to engage in ethical reflections on their new ...

Listen to The Ongoing Transformation - Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data by Issues in Science and Technology on Podcast Addict. Our new miniseries, Not Now, But Soon, challenges the stories we often tell about disasters, and explores how we can use speculative fiction to create better futures and policies. On our first episode, host Malka Older talks to Steven Gonzalez, an anthropologist of technology who researches the human labor behind data centers. Gonzalez is also a speculative fiction writer under the

An anthropologist, who worked in an Amazon warehouse, reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying.

Michael Burawoy reflects back on 40 years of industrial ethnography in Zambia, the USA, Hungary and Russia to discover the mistakes he made and, thus, to infer ...

This article draws on digital ethnographic fieldwork to examine how the pandemic-induced shift to remote work prompted workers at a London tech start-up to engage in ethical reflections on their new ...

The work of migrants and transborder commuters in rural and peripheralized localities is often considered invisible or, in fact, actively ignored. This multimodal essay reflects on transborder lifewo...

This article draws on digital ethnographic fieldwork to examine how the pandemic-induced shift to remote work prompted workers at a London tech start-up to engage in ethical reflections on their new ...

The evidence is mixed; it seems clear, however, that they are making us unhappier

The promise of knowledge society is clean, creative, and expressive work. Technological advancements would relieve humans from the tedium and hardship of labor, and access to knowledge and expansion ...