Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty: Labor in the Global Tech Economy

Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty: Labor in the Global Tech Economy

“As the tech economy has grown in the United States around the world, how has the nature of work changed? How has it stayed the same? And what is its future?”

Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty: Labor in the Global Tech Economy, Mary L. Gray in discussion with Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, and Kimberly Earles, author of The Gender Divide in the Tech Sector: A Plan to Address Bias and Change the Culture for an evening on the past, present and future of labor in the global tech economy.

Presented by the University of Washington Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, South Seattle College Washington State Labor Education and Research Center, and the Scholars Strategy Network – Washington Chapter.

“Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty: Labor in the Global Tech Economy” Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (University of Washington) and the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center (South Seattle College), and the Scholars Strategy Network  (Washington Chapter), October 12, 2020