Week 3

The labor of technology

Who designs all this stuff?

1. McIlwain, Charlton. “The Fort Rodman Experiment.” Logic Magazine, December 20, 2020. https://logicmag.io/commons/the-fort-rodman-experiment/. (article, 17 mins.)
2. Tarnoff, Ben, and Moira Weigel. “The Founder.” In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do–and How They Do It. FSG Originals x Logic. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. (article, 30 mins.)
3. Tarnoff, Ben, and Moira Weigel. “The Cook.” In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do–and How They Do It. FSG Originals x Logic. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. (article, 15 mins.)
4. This Machine Kills. “Ventures in Capitalist Innovation, Part 1: History and Mechanics,” March 8, 2023. https://podbay.fm/p/this-machine-kills/e/1678345944. (podcast, 85 mins., but you can skip to about 30 minutes in)

In-class links

Interactive slides

Backchannel

Videos

• “Workers Leaving the Googleplex”
• “Virtual Assistance: Video Task”
• “Why the US Has So Many Filipino Nurses” (Vox video)

Labor Studies: Industry and Economic Research Libguide

Zotero