Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry

Join us as we celebrate the launch of "Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry," Common Notions, 2025, a new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labour movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives. As tech billionaires align with Trump, they are also launching a renewed assault on labour through artificial intelligence and alienating tactics. But for now, it still takes workers to make fortunes for the bosses, and collective action is again on the rise. Previously thought to be “unorganizable,” these workers are part of a North American movement that is reaffirming faith in collective revolutionary action through new methods of organizing, new ways of association, and a new synthesis of traditional labour activities with original research. To capture this growing class consciousness, the Capacitor Collective has conducted ten illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts align traditional motives with new tactics in a text that shakes up the worker inquiry tradition and imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement. 0:00 Introduction by Tori 2:00 Enda Brophy, Simon Fraser University 11:30 Andrew Do, Tech Workers Coalition Canada 20:54 Karmah Dudin, The Amazon Project 27:30 Julie Chen, University of Toronto 33:15 Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto