Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age
Open Society Foundations' Future of Work Commissioned Research Papers 2014
17 Pages Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Date Written: October 8, 2014
Abstract
Unionization emerged as a way of protecting labor rights when society shifted from an agricultural ecosystem to one shaped by manufacturing and industrial labor. New networked work complicates the organizing mechanisms that are inherent to unionization. How then do we protect laborers from abuse, poor work conditions, and discrimination?
Keywords: Labor, Rights, Networked, Discrimination, Union, data, technology
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Kneese, Tamara and Rosenblat, Alex and Boyd, Danah, Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age (October 8, 2014). Open Society Foundations' Future of Work Commissioned Research Papers 2014
, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2536619 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2536619
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