Information technology’s ubiquitous presence in American life has spurred academics and journalists alike to fill a gaping void in a critical understanding of how technology is being developed and deployed, and with what impacts. Silicon Valley has promulgated accounts of technology as positively disruptive, as enabling new forms of entrepreneurism, as smoothly functioning systems, and as the inevitable result of progress. The depth to which this narrative has pervaded society is attributable to at least three major factors. First, technology entrepreneurs have capitalized on a general lack of technical expertise and uncertainty among regulators and the public about how new technologies actually work, particularly artificial intelligence and machine learning. Second, Silicon Valley wields significant economic, cultural, and political power that until recently has gone largely uncontested. Third, an ahistoricism toward capital-labor relations and long-standing labor market trends obscures the context in which new technologies in the workplace should be set. Collectively, the books reviewed for this editorial essay go a long way in rectifying this situation. Three focus on the intersection of technology and work (Gigged, Hustle and Gig, Ghost Work); three examine the creation and application of algorithms in a broad range of social processes beyond work, such as welfare eligibility, homeless service provision, and teacher evaluations based on standardized testing (Automating Inequality, Artificial Unintelligence, and Weapons of Math Destruction). Although they cover a wide range of technology contexts, what is common across these books is a direct confrontation with Silicon Valley narratives about the nature of technology and its effects on society, which interrupts the notion that technology’s transformative impacts on social, economic, and political spheres are both inevitable and inherently good.

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书评研讨会：技术遭遇：有关技术的新著作如何为现代劳动研究提供信息

信息技术在美国人生活中无处不在，这激发了学者和新闻工作者在填补对如何开发和部署技术及其影响的关键理解中的空白。硅谷颁布的技术对技术具有积极的破坏作用，可以促成新的企业家精神形式，可以平稳地运行系统，并且是进步的必然结果。这种叙述深入社会的深度至少可以归因于三个主要因素。首先，技术企业家已经充分利用了技术专业知识的普遍匮乏以及监管机构和公众对新技术的实际工作方式（尤其是人工智能和机器学习）的不确定性。其次，硅谷具有重要的经济，文化，直到最近几乎没有争议的政治权力。第三，对资本劳资关系的历史主义和长期的劳动力市场趋势掩盖了应在工作场所设置新技术的背景。总体而言，本篇社论文章所审阅的书籍在纠正这种情况方面大有帮助。三个关注技术与工作的交集（Gigged，Hustle和Gig，Ghost Work）；三位研究者在工作以外的广泛社会过程中研究了算法的创建和应用，例如福利资格，无家可归者提供服务以及基于标准化测试（自动化不平等，人为非智能和数学破坏武器）的教师评估。尽管它们涵盖了广泛的技术环境，