Workplace surveillance of employees became widespread in part because of sexual harassment laws, employers suddenly had to protect themselves from litigation.

See:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/ro...

That doesn't seem plausible given that "scientific management" is quite a bit older and one of its main concepts comes from an experiment in surveillance from 1927.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

The linked article does not support what you say in any way. If anything, it argues that invasion of privacy can actually be used against somebody by getting things out of context. It is definitely not what the link talks about, spending 1/3 of the text writing about how wrongfully invasion of privacy was used during Clinton's impeachment. Maybe you meant to share something else?

This is a really pernicious lie. If you believe this sort of thing, explain why you think sexual harassment laws are unfair, and why corporations were so trusting of their employees before that.

Hint: They weren’t trusting. Corporate surveillance follows technology. The bosses are obsessed with watching their workers every second. This is nothing new. What’s new is that we now do most of our work on networked computers, cameras are vanishingly cheap, and data storage is abundant.

Ha ha, no, we can't have that in the states. If the Republicans are in control, that's a pesky restriction of the owner class that needs removing. And if the Democrats are in charge, it's the opportunity to create landmark legislation that provides a sweeping solution to the problem that somehow doesn't accomplish anything.

How old are you seriously? Keep these comments on /r/politics.

HN is sliding downhill.

Through state level electoral reform, people would be able to vote outside the party system with no chance of a spoiler effect.

Perhaps feeling the heat of other viable political parties joining the table will light a fire under the asses of the legacy political parties?

Appreciate your offering possible solutions in a context of lack of agency many of us feel.

What are some possible venues for proposing such legislation locally - and what are some examples of success?