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RESELLING FUTURES
Advancing understanding of secondhand marketplaces through feminist economics and future of work principles
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Reselling Futures is an academic research initiative that investigates how algorithmic ecosystems are entwined with labor practices in online reselling. We are guided by theories in feminist economics and the future of work to promote more equitable and sustainable marketplaces. Algorithmic ecosystems in secondhand economies don’t exist in a vacuum: their effects are entwined with cultural practices, intersectional experiences and larger social systems. That’s why our methods follow a participatory and creative process to study how technologies like AI/ML and platforms influence the labor and lives of resellers. Our goal is to foster communal capacity building. Our research is built on principles drawn from feminist economics and the future of work. Feminist economics provides a critical framework that interrogates traditional economic analyses and labor valuations, emphasizing the importance of recognizing all forms of labor, including those traditionally marginalized or unpaid. In conjunction with future of work principles, our research explores the transformational potential of collective study of technology to understand and change the ways it is shaping labor in secondhand economies.