Data Justice Lab

The Amazonification of Royal Mail and postal worker identity - Jess Brand, Lina Dencik, 2025 Postal work has undergone significant transformations with the advent of platformisation that follows on from broader structural changes in the consumption and ...

Jess Brand & Lina Dencik have a new paper in Platforms & Society exploring changing worker identities amongst postal workers in response to increased platformisation of their work, arguing that Royal Mail is undergoing processes of 'Amazonification'

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Hi Tony, not this year but hoping for next year!

#OutNow in @icsjournal.bsky.social ‘Collectivity in data governance and data justice’ Read intro here: 👇
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So pleased for newly titled Dr @isobelrorison.bsky.social who passed her PhD viva with no corrections! 🥳 Isobel’s brilliant thesis on AI & the NHS provides crucial insights that we can all learn from. Watch out for her future publications!!
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⚠️ AI creates risks for all workers.

#AI can make work more insecure, less well paid and risk redundancies when used to manage people and automate tasks.

📊 @datajusticelab.bsky.social for TUC Cymru have researched how these risks impact workers based on:

Disability
Ethnicity
Gender
Age
Language