About Data Workers Inquiry

15 data workers in Venezuela, Kenya, Syria, and Germany conduct research with their colleagues in their respective workplaces and reporting on labor conditions and widespread practices in the AI industry. The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers join us as community researchers to lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces. The community researchers guide the direction of the research, such that it is oriented towards their needs and goals of building workplace power but supported by formally trained qualitative researchers. We adapt Marx’s 1880 [Workers’ Inquiry](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/04/20.htm) to the phenomenon of data workers who are both essential for contemporary AI applications yet precariously employed—if at all—and politically dispersed. To explore the rest of the projects attached to the Data Workers' Inquiry, visit our website: [data-workers.org/](https://data-workers.org/)

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