[Commlist] New Book: Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

We would like to share news of our new 
book,<https://www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry>/_Notes 
Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry 
<https://www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry>_/, 
co-authored by Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, Lilly 
Irani, Tamara Kneese, and Enda Brophy.

As Big Tech falls in line with fascism and prepares fresh assaults on 
workers, /Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry/ explores the 
connection between research and labour organizing, delivering first-hand 
accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labour movement. Featuring 
interviews with organizers along the digital value chain and drawing on 
collaborations with Alphabet Workers’ Union, Tech Workers Coalition, 
Rideshare Drivers United, Turkopticon, Amazon Workers Solidarity and 
other unions, this book explores labour's production of knowledge from 
below, within and against digital capitalism.

/Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry/ is published by the 
independent publisher Common Notions. Get the book for 25% off 
at<https://buff.ly/9Li5A3U>_buff.ly/9Li5A3U 
<https://buff.ly/9Li5A3U>_ (code: DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE).

“This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge 
production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism. It centers 
tech worker struggle and revives workers’ inquiry as the site of 
knowledge production and resistance. It is an inspiring and critical 
corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech.”
—Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UC Irvine | General Counsel, American 
Association of University Professors

"This brilliant text explains and exemplifies the practice of ‘Workers 
Inquiry’ as applied to Big Tech. It documents encounters between 
academic researchers and rebellious AI programmers, Amazon workers, 
rideshare drivers and other insurgent tech-sector employees, in 
conversations that are courageous, critical, self-reflexive, partisan, 
rich in radical analysis, full of unexpected angles--and that ultimately 
disclose an explosive counter-power at the very core of today’s digital 
capitalism."
—Nick Dyer-Witheford, co-author (with Alessandra Mularoni) of 
/Cybernetic Circulation Complex/

In solidarity,

The Capacitor Collective: Enda Brophy, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, 
Brian Dolber, Lilly Irani, and Tamara Kneese


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