Jessica Bruder

Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge  · 29 Mar 2020  · 159pp  · 42,401 words

SNOWDEN’S BOX SNOWDEN’S BOX Trust in the Age of Surveillance By Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge First published by Verso 2020 © Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge 2020 Parts of this book appeared originally under the same title in Harper’s Magazine, May 2017 All rights reserved The moral rights

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bruder, Jessica, author. | Maharidge, Dale, author. Title: Snowden’s box : trust in the age of surveillance / By Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge. Description: First edition hardback. | London ; New York : Verso, 2020. | “Parts of this book appeared originally under the same title in Harper’s

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power in check — unless, of course, we allow ourselves to be manipulated by fear and, in the silence that follows, grow apart from one another. — Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge 1. Winter Nights Dale Maharidge It was a frigid winter, and the Manhattan loft was cold — very cold. Something was wrong with

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I can start reviewing Thursday. See you soon.” To which I responded: “Yes, windows are good. We can never have too many in our lives.” Jessica Bruder Over the course of a decade and a half of friendship, Dale and I have shared all sorts of experiences. We’ve accidentally driven over

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder  · 18 Sep 2017  · 273pp  · 85,195 words

Nomadland SURVIVING AMERICA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JESSICA BRUDER W. W. NORTON & COMPANY INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS SINCE 1923 NEW YORK LONDON For Dale “There’s a crack in everything. That is how the light gets

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/rankings. 248. Octopus in a coconut: https://www.facebook.com/LADbible/videos/2969897786390725. ALSO BY JESSICA BRUDER Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man Photographs by Jessica Bruder. Photograph page 34 courtesy of Linda May. Copyright © 2017 by Jessica Bruder All rights reserved First Edition For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

it on our doorstep. Amazon alone employs more than 613,000 warehouse workers worldwide, and adds about 100,000 more temp workers during peaks.48 Jessica Bruder, in Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, follows the lives of Amazon’s “CamperForce,” a large group of (mainly) retirees who can’t

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

—indicated by the sheer number and variety of dildos and butt plugs passing through Amazon warehouses—is a subject of fascination to many workers,” wrote Jessica Bruder, who interviewed dozens of temporary Amazon workers for Nomadland, her chronicle of America’s surprisingly large population of itinerant temps. Because Tyler is a triumph

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Journal, September 20, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-prime-effect-how-amazons-2-day-shipping-is-disrupting-retail-1537448425. cover of Wired magazine: Jessica Bruder, “Meet the Immigrants Who Took On Amazon,” Wired, November 12, 2019, https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-immigrants-who-took-on-amazon. Chapter 15

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant  · 25 Sep 2023  · 524pp  · 154,652 words

Ginia Bellafante, “A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy,” New York Times, February 6, 2018. 3. With his large frame Jessica Bruder, “Driven to Despair,” New York, May 2018. The Great Comet Returns 1. Closed for Business signs “Retail Trade Employment: Before, During, and After the Pandemic

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minister “French Government Vows to Shut Down Uber,” Deutsche Welle, June 26, 2015. 4. “We are facing extinction” Douglas Schifter, Black Car News, quoted in Jessica Bruder, “Driven to Despair.” The New Tech Titans 1. “We’re going to see our already record-high inequality” This and many subsequent quotes are taken

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. The quotes about Amazon Go stores are taken from an event at Stories bookstore in LA. 8. He published the post to his Facebook page Jessica Bruder, ”Driven to Despair,” New York, May 2018. 9. But like the Luddites By the end of the next year, the city had enacted a cap

The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future

by Noreena Hertz  · 13 May 2020  · 506pp  · 133,134 words

To Improve Decision Making’, TechCrunch, 24 February 2015, https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/24/new-firm-combines-wearables-and-data-to-improve-decision-making/. 20 Jessica Bruder, ‘These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us’, The Nation, 27 May 2015, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/these-workers-have-new-demand

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

by Alex Rosenblat  · 22 Oct 2018  · 343pp  · 91,080 words

, who first gave me confidence to pursue sociological work. And to Ruth Donsky, my first teacher. To Natasha Singer, Anne L. Washington, Tom Igoe, and Jessica Bruder, whose brilliance and kindness were deeply encouraging to me as I wrote this book. To Labor Tech, a group of scholars organized by Winifred Poster

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Case Study of Uber’s Drivers,” International Journal of Communication 10, no. 27 (2016): 3772, http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4892. 15. Jessica Bruder, “These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us,” The Nation, May 27, 2015, www.thenation.com/article/these-workers-have-new-demand-stop-watching

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

by Emily Guendelsberger  · 15 Jul 2019  · 382pp  · 114,537 words

, Joanne B. Ciulla The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans, Beth Shulman Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Jessica Bruder Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies, Francoise Carre and Chris Tilly “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”: The Global

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Amazon-themed “I’m going to the picnic” one afternoon, from Advil to a Zero-tolerance policy about stealing. * For more about workamping, check out Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017). * Or I’m pretty sure that’s what he said

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

by Anthony Sattin  · 25 May 2022  · 412pp  · 121,164 words

all hunted as a single pack in the generous gardens of the deep past. * For more on the ‘houseless’ in the United States I recommend Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland, the book behind the film. PART I The Balancing Act It will not last. All is change, all is ephemeral. John Stewart Paradise

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

by Alec MacGillis  · 16 Mar 2021  · 426pp  · 136,925 words

/amazon-warehouse-fulfillment-centers-productivity-firing-terminations. somewhat higher-skilled jobs: “What Amazon Does to Wages,” The Economist, January 20, 2018. the CamperForce of retirees: Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017). almost designed to isolate employees: Emily Guendelsberger, On the Clock: What

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use the toilet whenever needed”: From Amazon’s written response to questions submitted by the author, July 13, 2020. a group of Somali American workers: Jessica Bruder, “Meet the Immigrants Who Took On Amazon,” Wired, November 12, 2019. a study of twenty-three Amazon warehouses by the Center for Investigative Reporting: Will

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina  · 19 Aug 2019

The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era

by Ellen Ruppel Shell  · 22 Oct 2018  · 402pp  · 126,835 words

Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future

by Ben Tarnoff  · 13 Jun 2022  · 234pp  · 67,589 words