I use historical archival data, regression analysis, and computational text analysis to examine how workplaces are changing and evolving. I am particularly interested in understanding how technology is changing the balance between shareholder and stakeholder capitalism. I am a founding member and digital archivist at the non-profit Collective Action in Tech. In 2021, Fast Company named us one of “15 worker groups taking on the tech world”.

My dissertation studies how workers have spoken up about technological change in U.S. workplaces from the 1960s to the present-day. I outline the historical scale and scope of workplace protest in the U.S. before examining how workers have used their voice to both aid and impede the integration of technologies into the workplace. I examine recent protests around AI workplace technologies and determine who will be most impacted by changes in algorithmic labor and management.