Consistent with our past research, the study presented in Tracked and Targeted: Navigating Worker Surveillance at Amazon is a participatory action research study. This means we focus deeply on individuals’ and groups’ lived experiences as the basis from which we can know and understand the world. This type of research design deeply emphasizes reciprocity and…
Our Data Bodies’ interim findings on surveillance of low-wage workers at Amazon are now published! Tracked and Targeted: Navigating Worker Surveillance at Amazon features insights and stories based on an initial analysis of 21 interviews we conducted with current and former workers. Our qualitative, participatory studyDetails on our participatory methodology can be found here: https://www.odbproject.org/2023/11/15/odb-at-work-methodology/.…
Amazon is sort of an interesting case. They track everything you do. Like, when I first came in joining… I started working there, one of the, they had sort of their ambassadors, like, showing people around, showing you “Here is the workstations.” One of the things that people will normally notice or point out, is…
Misclassifying—especially truck drivers—as independent contractors, and that’s obviously something that’s spread to a bunch of other sectors, rideshare being the most obvious one. So now we’re seeing this surveillance kind of capitalism based in Amazon and other companies and seeing, again, that this is starting here and that it’s not going to stay here, it’s…