[acc-cca-l] New Book: Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

[Enda Brophy]

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Dear colleagues,

We would like to share news of our new book, <https://www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry> Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry<https://www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry>, co-authored by Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, Lilly Irani, Tamara Kneese, and myself.

As Big Tech falls in line with fascism and prepares fresh assaults on workers, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry explores the connection between research and labour organizing, delivering first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labour movement. Featuring interviews with organizers along the digital value chain and drawing on collaborations with Alphabet Workers’ Union, Tech Workers Coalition, Rideshare Drivers United, Turkopticon, Amazon Workers Solidarity, and other unions, this book explores labour's production of knowledge from below, within and against digital capitalism.

Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry is published by the independent publisher Common Notions. Get the book for 25% off at <https://buff.ly/9Li5A3U> buff.ly/9Li5A3U<https://buff.ly/9Li5A3U> (code: DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE).

“This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism. It centers tech worker struggle and revives workers’ inquiry as the site of knowledge production and resistance. It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech.”
—Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UC Irvine | General Counsel, American Association of University Professors

"This brilliant text explains and exemplifies the practice of ‘Workers Inquiry’ as applied to Big Tech. It documents encounters between academic researchers and rebellious AI programmers, Amazon workers, rideshare drivers and other insurgent tech-sector employees, in conversations that are courageous, critical, self-reflexive, partisan, rich in radical analysis, full of unexpected angles--and that ultimately disclose an explosive counter-power at the very core of today’s digital capitalism."
—Nick Dyer-Witheford, co-author (with Alessandra Mularoni) of Cybernetic Circulation Complex

In solidarity,

The Capacitor Collective: Enda Brophy, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, Lilly Irani, and Tamara Kneese

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Enda Brophy (he/him)
Professor | School of Communication
Associate | Labour Studies
Simon Fraser University | HC 3559
515 W Hastings St, Vancouver V6B 5K3

Simon Fraser University lies on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations.
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