Episode Topic: Workers and Power

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on essential workers: grocery workers who keep shelves stocked with food and cleaning supplies, truckers who transport goods across the country, and sanitation workers who maintain city streets and sidewalks. Increasingly, these workers are subjected to workplace surveillance technologies that purport to increase efficiency by following their routes, precisely timing their breaks, and making just-in-time shift changes. 

Featured Speakers: 

• Ali Alkhatib, Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics, University of San Francisco
• Karen Levy, Assistant Professor of Information Science, Cornell University; Associate Faculty, Cornell Law School

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/2135ff.

This podcast is a part of the TEC Talks ThinkND Series titled “Technology & Power”.