Byte Back (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Common Notions, Matawan, 2026
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Paperback. Atheory-driven account of the stakes and knowledge-building practices ofthe resurgent labor movement from organizers across the gig economy andtech industry.Astech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewedpolitical and technological assault on labor. But it still takes workersto make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on therise. The rank and file are coming from the precarious new gig jobsand drawing strength from a new class of worker who does the jobs thatcomputers still cannot. Previously thought to be unorganizable, theseworkers are part of a North American collective movement that isreaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action with new forms oforganizing, new ways of association, and new ways of thinking andrecombining labor organizing and research.Tocapture this growing class consciousness as it happens, the CapacitorCollective has conducted ten illuminating interviews with platformworkers who are also organizers committed to connecting old motivationsand new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition toimagine new ways to produce knowledge with and for workers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Byte Back (Paperback)
- Author
- Alessandro Delfanti
- Publisher
- Common Notions, Matawan
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1945335483
- ISBN 13
- 9781945335488
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About the Author
Capacitor Collective is a research collective dedicated to digital worker inquiry rooted in labor organizing within and against digital capitalism. The collective includes: Enda Brophy, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, Lilly Irani, and Tamara Kneese.
Contributors include:
Enda Brophy is a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Julie Yujie Chen is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
Hiu Fung Chung is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.
Alessandro Delfanti is a professor at the University of Toronto.
Wei Ding is a professor at Shenzhen University.
Brian Dolber is an associate professor at California State University San Marcos.
Victoria Fleming is a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto.
Cailean Gallagher is an associate lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.
Qi Ge is a taxi driver with the Shenzhen V Fleet.
Seamus Bright Grayer is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University School of Communication.
Erik H is an organizer, systems engineer, and food service worker in Seattle.
Alex Hanna is director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute.
Mostafa Henaway is an organizer with the Immigrant Workers’ Centre in Montreal.
Mikaiil Hussein is the President of United Taxi Workers San Diego.
Lilly Irani is a professor at the University of California San Diego.
Krystal K and Phil are organizers at Turkopticon.
Tamara Kneese is a research director at Data & Society.
Diana Limbaga is a graduate student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Sarah Jean Salman is a Communication PhD student at Cornell University.
Tyler Sandness is a member of Rideshare Drivers United and former Lyft driver.
Kate Sim is a researcher and organizer with No Tech for Apartheid and TWC.
RK Upadhya is an electrical engineer based in San Antonio and an organizer with TWC and IWW.
Milla Vodello is the pseudonym of an organizer with the Amazon Worker Solidarity group in Toronto.
Peter Zschiesche is a founder of the Employee Rights Center in San Diego.
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