Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Labour and Tech Editor at Rest of World
Labour x Tech editor @restofworld, covering how tech is transforming the way we work, especially outside the west. Ideas & tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
restofworld.org | Michael Beltran |Hsiuwen Liu |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. The second story publishes next week.)A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat for lunch at their shelter in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, and thanked God for the food and asked for protection from bad brokers.
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3 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Michelle Kim |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
On sweltering summer days, chef Park Jeong-eun would cook makguksu, an earthy Korean dish made with buckwheat noodles steeped in a tangy, ice-cold broth, topped with spicy gochujang paste. Truck drivers would come from faraway places to the Munmak rest stop, on the highway in the mountainous Gangwon-do province in South Korea, to eat her food. That was until February 2024, when three robot chefs took over the kitchen at Munmak.
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1 month ago |
restofworld.org | Pedro Nakamura |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
The hum of midday traffic in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil, was a familiar soundtrack to Guilherme’s hustle. Fourteen, slight, and armed with a plastic box of colorful candies — Halls and Fini — he wove between cars stopped at a light near the city center. But it wasn’t so much the few reais from each sale that fueled his energy as the lens of a nearby iPhone capturing his every move. The true reward for the day’s labor rested with his online audience.
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1 month ago |
restofworld.org | Stephanie Wangari |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Firms that provide outsourced digital labor for big tech companies tend to be secretive. They are often bound by legal contracts that limit what they can say, allowing tech companies to distance themselves legally and ethically from their workers, experts told Rest of World. “This creates a circle of invisibility around this work,” Antonio Casilli, a sociologist at Polytechnic Institute of Paris who studies the human contributors to artificial intelligence, told Rest of World.
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Jul 29, 2024 |
nature.com | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
It seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime for AM, a young Indian graduate student who loved studying reptiles. In December 2015, she began fieldwork for her master’s thesis at a non-profit organization’s turtle conservation programme. That New Year’s Eve, the 21-year-old student attended a party with her colleagues at her male supervisor’s house.
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