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January 14, 2015
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January 5, 2015
Is Crowdsourcing Bad for Workers?
“Cloud labor” sites like Crowdflower may be the face of the future—but their wages are stuck in a sweatshop past.
Michelle Chen
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December 29, 2014
Tech Workers Chafe at India’s Neoliberal Ascent
The real tech revolution may not be in Silicon Valley but at a Nokia factory outside Chennai.
Michelle Chen
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November 5, 2014
Can Big Government Solve the Mysteries of Autism and Alzheimer’s Disease?
Why we need Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.
Cori Bargmann
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October 27, 2014
Can a ‘Yelp’ for Immigrant Guestworkers Help Them Avoid Abusive Bosses?
In the fight against labor exploitation, a new tool allows workers to be their own watchdogs.
Michelle Chen
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October 22, 2014
Can Consumer Campaigns Actually Improve Tech-Sector Labor Practices?
The Electronics Watch coalition has a plan: harness consumer power to hold tech giants accountable.
Michelle Chen
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September 29, 2014
Is ‘Big Data’ Actually Reinforcing Social Inequalities?
An increasingly technologized world makes life easier… for some people, anyway.
Michelle Chen
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September 10, 2014
With the Wages That Have Been Stolen From Them, Apple Factory Workers Could Buy 1,460 iPhone 6s a Month
While the tech world fawns over the new iPhone 6, labor abuses abound at an Apple factory in China.
Michelle Chen
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July 23, 2014
No, Millennials Are Not All Libertarians
Young Americans’ fondness for high-tech innovation could suit our need to shake up the political system.
Alex Holt
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July 15, 2014
The Very Naughty Whistleblower
Pundits and politicians agree: Edward Snowden did something naughty. But what do the people think?
Tom Tomorrow