January 9, 2023· 40 min
What Truckers Already Know About the Future of Electronic Worker Surveillance
Orality
Model
80%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,260 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,455 words)
M:29%
GuestKaren Levy(5,527 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic22%
very, absolutely, obviously
Engagement62%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, right
Repetition100%
like (329x), know (102x), right (100x)
Parallelism83%
And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., And he said I mean, he said a ..., And the idea was to explore th...
Sound Patterns100%
112 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging7%
may, could, maybe
Passive Voice8%
are monitored, be tracked, be tracked
Abstract Nouns16%
investment, business, chase.com/business
Subordination8%
because, since, although
Sentence Length37%
Avg: 14.3 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style38%
552 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style88%
apply, absolutely, really
Description
Thanks to work from home, and other trends, workers are being electronically monitored by their bosses like never before. But some industries have had experience with this for awhile. Truck drivers, in particular, have been under legally-required electronic monitoring for several years now. Not only are their hours and miles electronically logged, increasingly they're subject to facial cameras and other types of body monitoring. On this episode, we speak with Karen Levy, a professor at Cornell and the author of "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" to discuss how surveillance works within the trucking industry, and what it means for everyone else. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.