Continuous bodily surveillance now distinguishes lower-status from higher-status jobs

Evidence

Meanwhile, existing social relations (including labor relations) for hundreds of millions of people are increasingly datafied—that is, managed through data, including data gathered from the surfaces or insides of workers’ bodies. Work, for many, increasingly occurs within the sort of corporate environment of sensors that Davenport imagined; in its absoluteness, this recalls the continuous surveillance, if not the violence, that slave labor endured on a large scale under historical colonialism. Labor relations are becoming more directly and continuously extractive, whatever the formalities that cloak them. This has implications too for inequality, as exposure to (or freedom from) continuous surveillance becomes a key factor that distinguishes lower-status from higher-status jobs. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 86

Categorization

• XREF: Direct comparison to slave-labor surveillance links this rival ‘data colonialism’ frame back to both Base Nation’s base surveillance and the reader’s slavery-systems work. — connects to: Lower-status work faces far more surveillance than higher-status work — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 581; Surveillance of workers installs most densely in low-wage work. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 482; Widespread life monitoring grew from the 1980s onward — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 115
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 86

Broader Connections

• Lower-status work faces far more surveillance than higher-status work #corroborates (0.95) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 581
• Surveillance of workers installs most densely in low-wage work. #expands (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 482