[ecrea] Log Out! Worker Resistance Within and Against the Platform Economy. Conference, March 6, University of Toronto

Log Out! Worker Resistance Within and Against the Platform Economy
International conference, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, 
University of Toronto

March 6, 2018 – 10:00am – 6:00pm, at the Faculty of Information, 140 St. 
George Street, Toronto, Room 728.

http://www.chi.utoronto.ca/log-out/

Emerging waves of struggles in sectors such as logistics, food delivery, 
journalism, and other platform-based sites of labour are showing how 
workers resist the casualized and precarious work conditions of the 
digital economy. Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon, Instagram, and many other 
platform-based corporations are experiencing worker refusal, organizing 
and struggle. Their algorithmic power is coupled with the material 
command over workers’ bodies, time and space. Yet while technology is 
used to intensify and subdue labour, it is also constantly met with 
resistance from workers. This will be key in future processes of 
liberation, as workers challenge the patterns shaped by the platform and 
unionize or organize for improved conditions, higher wages, predictable 
scheduling, and better benefits.

Speakers:
Enda Brophy and Seamus Grayer (Simon Fraser University)
Callum Cant (University of West London)
Julie Yujie Chen (University of Leicester)
Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto)
Niels van Doorn (University of Amsterdam)
Nick Dyer-Witheford (Western University)
Alessandro Gandini (King’s College)
Lilly Irani (University of California San Diego)
Tamara Kneese (University of San Francisco)
Kristy Milland (McMaster University and TurkerNation)
Victoria O’Meara (Western University)
Noopur​​ Raval (University of California Irvine)
Alex Rosenblat (Data & Society)
Tech Workers Coalition
Jamie Woodcock (London School of Economics)

(Full schedule TBA)

Attendance is free. Please register at this link: http://bit.ly/2qQvlfd

The conference is organized by the McLuhan Centre for Culture and 
Technology and its working group on platform labour. It is co-sponsored 
by the ICCIT (Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and 
Technology) and the University of Toronto Mississauga.

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