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A big surge in orders isn’t the only reason Amazon is struggling to keep up
We want to change these norms and expectations. By publishing “Do Better” -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums, …
Ethics history in computing/engineering.
The buzzy coding bootcamp sent a legal letter to a former employee who spoke out.
Vocational awe. Burnout. Low morale. Precarity. Undercompensation. Together, the themes I see cropping up in LIS research, conference presentations, and Twitter point to a chronic problem.
rom the beginning of this project, the team has been interested in how the increasing reliance on independent contracting in libraries, archives, and museums has affected heritage professionals per…
Coding boot-camp start-up Lambda School has been valued by investors at $150 million — but its job placement rate is much lower than it claims.
The company has partnered with Edly to sell ISAs to investors.
For students, the lessons were painful.
Empty Presence:Library Labor, Prestige, and the MLS
Employees are defying a company ban on talking publicly about Amazon practices.
The workers of Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s on-demand micro-task platform, say they have encountered mutilated bodies, graphic videos of botched surgeries, and what appeared to be child pornography. They say they have been asked to transcribe Social Security numbers and other personal data. Sometimes their temporary…
This is a lightly edited version of a talk I gave at MLA 2020, in a panel organized by Dr. Carrie Johnston and Rennie Mapp, titled “Being Human in DH Project...
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class
Firing is the latest in a series of disputes between Google and its workforce.