[acc-cca-l] Launch Events: Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

[Enda Brophy]

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Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

Book Launch / Lancement in Toronto and Montreal



> Thursday, February 12, Toronto, 7 PM @ Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave

With Karmah Dudin (The Amazon Project), Andrew Do (Tech Workers Coalition Canada), Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto), Julie Chen (University of Toronto), Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University).

Hosted by Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education and Digital Labour Working Group



> Vendredi 13 février, Montreal, 18h @ Atomic café, 3606 Rue Ontario E

Avec Mostafa Henaway (Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants), Lilly Irani (University of California San Diego), Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto), Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University).

Hébergé par revue Ouvrage



The Capacitor Collective: Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labour through artificial intelligence and alienating tactics. But for now, it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. The rank and file are now coming from precarious new “gig jobs” and drawing strength from a class of worker who does what computers still cannot. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labour activities with original research. To capture this growing class consciousness, the Capacitor Collective has conducted ten illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts align traditional motives with new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition and imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement.

Capacitor Collective is a research collective dedicated to digital worker inquiry rooted in labour organizing within and against digital capitalism. The collective includes: Enda Brophy, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, Lilly Irani, and Tamara Kneese.


Find the book here<https://www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry>.



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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
E: ebrophy at sfu.ca

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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