Callum Cant
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 296489 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Callum Cant |
| PRENOMES | Callum |
| SOBRENOME | Cant |
| ASSINATURA | CANT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7729-900X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The mirage of polycrisis
The concept of the ‘polycrisis’ is communicatively potent. That potency partially explains why the term has made its way to the fore in debate after debate since its use by the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in 2015. But it also owes its prominence to its political function. This article uses a symptomatic reading of Adam Tooze to demonstrate that the concept replaces structural explanations with a profusion of empirical…
The poverty of ethical AI
Impact sourcing is the practice of employing socio-economically disadvantaged individuals at business process outsourcing centres to reduce poverty and create secure jobs. One of the pioneers of impact sourcing is Sama, a training-data company that focuses on annotating data for artificial intelligence (AI) systems and claims to support an ethical AI supply chain through its business operations. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at three of Sama’s …
A typology of artificial intelligence data work
This article provides a new typology for understanding human labour integrated into the production of artificial intelligence systems through data preparation and model evaluation. We call these forms of labour 'AI data work' and show how they are an important and necessary element of the artificial intelligence production process. We draw on fieldwork with an artificial intelligence data business process outsourcing centre specialising in comput…
Platform Worker Organising at Deliveroo in the UK
It has been five years since the first strikes of Deliveroo workers in London in 2016. Since then, workers have continued to organise. The campaigns have involved five different aspects: first, wildcat strike action; second, networks and internationalisation; third, union organising with the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain ( iwgb ); fourth, legal campaigning; and fifth, wider leverage campaigns. What is less understood so far is the di…
Digital Workerism
The use of digital technology has become a key part of contemporary debates on how work is changing, the future of work/ers, resistance, and organising. Workerism took up many of these questions in the context of the factory – particularly through the Italian Operaismo – connecting the experience of the workplace with a broader struggle against capitalism. However, there are many differences between those factories and the new digital workplaces …
Operaísmo Digital
O uso das tecnologias digitais tornou-se parte essencial dos debates contemporâneos sobre como o trabalho está mudando, o futuro do trabalho e dos trabalhadores, incluindo as resistências e a organização. O operaísmo levantou muitas dessas questões no contexto da fábrica - particularmente por meio do Operaismo italiano - conectando a experiência do local de trabalho a uma luta mais ampla contra o capitalismo. No entanto, há muitas diferenças entr…
Fast Food Shutdown
This article discusses the Fast Food Shutdown, a strike on 4 October 2018 that involved Wetherspoon, McDonald's, TGI Fridays and UberEats workers in the United Kingdom. It compares the different strategies of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers' Union at Wetherspoon and Industrial Workers of the World at UberEats. The two case studies, drawing on the authors' ongoing ethnographic research, provide important examples of successful precarious worker…
Platform Workers of the World, Unite! The Emergence of the Transnational Federation of Couriers
This article provides an introduction to the Transnational Federation of Couriers by presenting the results of ongoing processes of participant observation carried out by the authors. First, it gives an account of the formation of the TFC out of preexisting networks. Second, it moves onto a discussion of how the TFC was able to formulate a set of demands which applied across the different contexts and environments of its member organizations. Thi…
Platform Worker Organising at Deliveroo in the UK
It has been five years since the first strikes of Deliveroo workers in London in 2016. Since then, workers have continued to organise. The campaigns have involved five different aspects: first, wildcat strike action; second, networks and internationalisation; third, union organising with the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain ( iwgb ); fourth, legal campaigning; and fifth, wider leverage campaigns. What is less understood so far is the di…
Fast Food Shutdown
This article discusses the Fast Food Shutdown, a strike on 4 October 2018 that involved Wetherspoon, McDonald's, TGI Fridays and UberEats workers in the United Kingdom. It compares the different strategies of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers' Union at Wetherspoon and Industrial Workers of the World at UberEats. The two case studies, drawing on the authors' ongoing ethnographic research, provide important examples of successful precarious worker…
Platform Workers of the World, Unite! The Emergence of the Transnational Federation of Couriers
This article provides an introduction to the Transnational Federation of Couriers by presenting the results of ongoing processes of participant observation carried out by the authors. First, it gives an account of the formation of the TFC out of preexisting networks. Second, it moves onto a discussion of how the TFC was able to formulate a set of demands which applied across the different contexts and environments of its member organizations. Thi…
A typology of artificial intelligence data work
This article provides a new typology for understanding human labour integrated into the production of artificial intelligence systems through data preparation and model evaluation. We call these forms of labour 'AI data work' and show how they are an important and necessary element of the artificial intelligence production process. We draw on fieldwork with an artificial intelligence data business process outsourcing centre specialising in comput…
Digital Workerism
The use of digital technology has become a key part of contemporary debates on how work is changing, the future of work/ers, resistance, and organising. Workerism took up many of these questions in the context of the factory – particularly through the Italian Operaismo – connecting the experience of the workplace with a broader struggle against capitalism. However, there are many differences between those factories and the new digital workplaces …
Operaísmo Digital
O uso das tecnologias digitais tornou-se parte essencial dos debates contemporâneos sobre como o trabalho está mudando, o futuro do trabalho e dos trabalhadores, incluindo as resistências e a organização. O operaísmo levantou muitas dessas questões no contexto da fábrica - particularmente por meio do Operaismo italiano - conectando a experiência do local de trabalho a uma luta mais ampla contra o capitalismo. No entanto, há muitas diferenças entr…
Fast Food Shutdown
This article discusses the Fast Food Shutdown, a strike on 4 October 2018 that involved Wetherspoon, McDonald's, TGI Fridays and UberEats workers in the United Kingdom. It compares the different strategies of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers' Union at Wetherspoon and Industrial Workers of the World at UberEats. The two case studies, drawing on the authors' ongoing ethnographic research, provide important examples of successful precarious worker…
Platform Workers of the World, Unite! The Emergence of the Transnational Federation of Couriers
This article provides an introduction to the Transnational Federation of Couriers by presenting the results of ongoing processes of participant observation carried out by the authors. First, it gives an account of the formation of the TFC out of preexisting networks. Second, it moves onto a discussion of how the TFC was able to formulate a set of demands which applied across the different contexts and environments of its member organizations. Thi…
Platform Worker Organising at Deliveroo in the UK
It has been five years since the first strikes of Deliveroo workers in London in 2016. Since then, workers have continued to organise. The campaigns have involved five different aspects: first, wildcat strike action; second, networks and internationalisation; third, union organising with the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain ( iwgb ); fourth, legal campaigning; and fifth, wider leverage campaigns. What is less understood so far is the di…
A typology of artificial intelligence data work
This article provides a new typology for understanding human labour integrated into the production of artificial intelligence systems through data preparation and model evaluation. We call these forms of labour 'AI data work' and show how they are an important and necessary element of the artificial intelligence production process. We draw on fieldwork with an artificial intelligence data business process outsourcing centre specialising in comput…
The mirage of polycrisis
The concept of the ‘polycrisis’ is communicatively potent. That potency partially explains why the term has made its way to the fore in debate after debate since its use by the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in 2015. But it also owes its prominence to its political function. This article uses a symptomatic reading of Adam Tooze to demonstrate that the concept replaces structural explanations with a profusion of empirical…
The poverty of ethical AI
Impact sourcing is the practice of employing socio-economically disadvantaged individuals at business process outsourcing centres to reduce poverty and create secure jobs. One of the pioneers of impact sourcing is Sama, a training-data company that focuses on annotating data for artificial intelligence (AI) systems and claims to support an ethical AI supply chain through its business operations. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at three of Sama’s …
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