Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry book launch

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, a brand new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives. 

As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labor 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. 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 labor 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. 

All are welcome to hear directly from the contributors to the book about the findings of this important work and to discuss what lessons can be taken forward by activist-researchers, organizers, and workers alike. The book is available now from Common Notions Press!

We would like to thank our friends at the Digital Labour Working Group at the University of Toronto for their support of this event.

Please stick around after the evening’s program for complimentary refreshments and to continue the discussion. 

Featuring…

Julie Chen, University of Toronto
Enda Brophy, Simon Fraser University
Karmah Dudin, The Amazon Project
Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto
Andrew Do, Tech Workers Coalition Canada
and
Tori Fleming, York University, The Socialist Project

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

Accessibility

Friends House is accessible to wheelchairs via the automatic door at the Meeting Room entrance at the front on the west side of the house, from Lowther Ave. We kindly ask all participants to refrain from wearing scents or perfumes. Any questions regarding accessibility, participation, or programming can be directed to info@leopanitchschool.ca.