About — Digital Labour Tech

The platform is designed to function as an institutional space: part publication, part public research platform, and part consultation front door. It is not a personal website or a generic commentary outlet.

Its analytical perspective is worker-centred, empirically serious, and rooted in the realities of India and the Global South — while remaining internationally legible and useful to global debates on work and technology.

Mission

To build a trusted destination for scholars, journalists, policymakers, and organisations seeking rigorous analysis of how technology is transforming work and employment relations.

Orientation

Worker-centred and empirically grounded. Questions of labour process, regulation, organisation, and inequality remain central — even when the subject is AI, platforms, or automation.

Positioning

India-rooted, globally engaged. The editorial stance begins from labour realities in India and the Global South — while engaging with international scholarship and policy debates worldwide.

Analytical Focus

Labour process and workplace control in platform and AI-mediated work
Regulation, rights, and social protection for technology-affected workers
Algorithmic management, surveillance, and workplace data
Worker organisation, collective action, and resistance in digital economies
Political economy of automation, displacement, and hidden labour
Global South perspectives on digital labour markets and policy

Editorial Model

Publications are released as finished pieces — not as drafts or hot takes. Each undergoes internal editorial review for analytical clarity, empirical grounding, and stylistic consistency before publication.

The platform publishes three formats: Essays (longer-form analysis and argument), Briefs (shorter, decision-oriented interventions), and Reading Lists (curated collections on specific themes).

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