See Our First Titles in Print!
Green Card Soldier:
Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat
by Sofya Aptekar
Worn Out:
How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers are Fighting Back
by Madison Van Oort
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Labor and Technology: Transnationalism, Feminism and Anti-Racism, MIT Press
Description
The Labor and Technology Series aims to fill a gap in scholarly and public discussions about the digital capacities and infrastructures that are affecting how we work. The series promotes critical analysis of dynamics such as digitization, automation, mobile computing, surveillance, the gig economy, precarity, care work, crowdsourcing, outsourcing, and more. It brings a deep and contextual analysis to accounts of new and unrecognized forms of labor by asking: Who are the workers being left out of the story? How is labor fundamentally connected to systems of inequality based on, for example, race, class, gender, and sexuality? How are technologies of labor rooted in political economies, legal systems, state regulations, and social ideologies—especially beyond the US and Europe, and particularly in the Global South? How are different groups shaping technology from the ground up, with grassroots initiatives? The goal of the series is to provide a space for a nuanced, multidimensional, and research-informed conversation. In doing so, the series attempts to tie together discussions that have been sprinkled across myriad disciplines, creating a cohesive site for analyses of the digitization of work and an anchor for future debates.
Forthcoming Titles
To see links for these books on the press website, click here
Sofya Aptekar, The Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat
Eileen Buckholtz, Queens of Code: Inspiring True Stories from NSA’s Computing Women
Colleen Carrigan, Cracking the Bro-Code
Ryan Ellis, Hustle and Hack: Bugs, Bounties, and the Remaking of Security Work
Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild, Job Security: Security Workers Talk About the Parts of Their Jobs They Can Talk About and How They Feel About the Parts They Can’t Talk About
Alvaro Huerta, Jardineros: Cultivating Los Angeles’ Front Lawn with Brown Hands, Migrant Networks, and Technology. *Awardee of MIT Press Grant Fund for Diverse Voices!*
Margaret Jack, Digital Restitution: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology
Madison Van Oort, Worn Out: Digital Precarity in Just-in-Time Retail
Winifred R. Poster, Multi-surveillances: Transnational Digital Agency in the Outsourced Services of Indian Call Centers
Karina Rider, Volunteering the Valley
Ling Tang, Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Business Women in the Internet Age
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For Further Information
MIT Press Page
More info on the Labor and Technology Series can be found here
Editors
The series is being nurtured by the following team:
Press editor, Katie Helke:
website: https://www.katiehelke-editor.com/labor-and-technology
email: helkekat@mit.edu
Series editor, Winifred Poster:
website: www.winifredposter.com
email: wrposter@gmail.com
Submissions
To submit a proposal to this series: please reach out to either/both Winnie and Katie with a proposal and 1-2 sample chapters. If you do not hear back from either of us within two weeks, please follow up.
Some FAQs are addressed here: https://www.katiehelke-editor.com/publishing-101