Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to welcome Cornell Sociologist Karen Levy, PhD, to discuss her recent book "Data Driven - Truckers, Technology, and the new Workplace Surveillance", which is a very deep dive into the effects of Surveillance Technology such as the ELD on America's truckers. We discuss Karen's interest in how rules are managed and negotiated in practice, and where this intersects with state and corporate desire to use surveillance technology to enforce those rules on workers. Karen's research has found some interesting things about this technology, how it works, what it does and does not accomplish, the marketing around it, and how it affects the working lives of the surveilled. There is much consideration to be drawn from her study for the wider working class.
You can buy Data Driven directly from Princeton University Press -
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691175300/data-driven
Karen Levy's personal website with more information about her work -
Karen's Twitter -
https://twitter.com/karen_ec_levy
My own review of Data Driven at American Affairs Journal -
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/02/panopticons-of-the-interstate/
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