Lower-status work faces far more surveillance than higher-status work

Evidence

Whereas specific human subjects face danger from the new social hierarchies that are being built through managing extracted data, all human subjects face a threat to the minimal integrity of the self from data colonialism’s reliance on ever-expanding mechanisms of surveillance and tracking. Lower-status work brings higher exposure to surveillance, with zero discretion, while higher-status work enjoys more protection from surveillance and greater discretion. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 581

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s attention/surveillance school readings on how surveillance tracks status hierarchies; the discretion gradient parallels workplace surveillance scholarship like Zuboff’s ‘poorly paid = more tracked’. — connects to: Continuous bodily surveillance now distinguishes lower-status from higher-status jobs — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 86; Educational institutions resist data-collection surveillance far less than health care does — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 532; Surveillance of workers installs most densely in low-wage work. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 482 (+2 more)