1/ “After a year working on the floor, I felt like I had become a version of the robots I was working with.”
In 2018, Amazon was issued new patents to let them track their workers through wristband haptic monitors.
via @geekwire: geekwire.com/2018/amazon-wi… #colorofsurveillance
@geekwire 2/ We’re warned: Automation will decimate labor. What if we’re missing something?
@BrishenRogers argues that the threat isn't from mechanization. Rather, it is *surveillance* that will help companies ID tasks to outsource to “low-skilled” low-wage labor.
rooseveltinstitute.org/beyond-automat…
@geekwire @BrishenRogers 3/ Things are starting to change. @marley_pulido (@CowOrker) and other labor organizers are helping workers push back. cnet.com/news/at-amazon…
@geekwire @BrishenRogers @marley_pulido @CowOrker 4/ Join us at #ColorOfSurveillance for a discussion on the impacts of surveillance in the modern workplace w/ @BrishenRogers, @marley_pulido, and @MarkGPearceWR -- former @NLRB chair and head of the Workers Rights Institute @GeorgetownLaw. RSVP here:
eventbrite.com/e/the-color-of…
@geekwire @BrishenRogers @marley_pulido @CowOrker @NLRB @GeorgetownLaw 5/ P.S. ...that quote in the first tweet is here: nytimes.com/2018/02/01/tec…
@geekwire @BrishenRogers @marley_pulido @CowOrker @NLRB @GeorgetownLaw 6/ Tagging Mark’s actual handle: @MarkGPearceWRI! (Sorry Mark!)
@geekwire @BrishenRogers @marley_pulido @CowOrker @NLRB @GeorgetownLaw @MarkGPearceWRI 7/ ...aaaand the right handle for @teamcoworker!
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