Image
Source
Oh, Seyoung. 2019. “Created Image: Diverse UC Workers and their Workplaces” Visualizing Toxicity within the UC Workforce, created by Seyoung Oh. In Visualizing Toxic Subjects Digital Exhibit, curated by James Adams and Kim Fortun. The Center for Ethnography. March.
https://afscme3299.org/documents/reports/Pioneering-Inequality_WhitePaper.pdf
Language
English
English
Substantive Caption: These images were found in “Pioneering Inequality. Race, Gender, and Income Disparities at the University of California.” written by AFSCME Local 3299 and published last April. AFSCME 3299 interpolated these images to show UC employees’ everyday duties and their workplaces throughout universities and medical centers. The pictures were originally dispersed throughout the report, but I combined them to show communities subject to toxic conditions in the UC workforce. Here income, race, and gender issues across the UC also deeply intersect with an additional problematic layer of UC policy, the replacement of career workers with outsourced contractors. Over 7,000 workers are currently outsourced contractors, who have the same responsibilities as the lowest paid career workers but get paid even less ($8.5 less per hour) and receive no benefits. These contractors are not temporary workers; they have been working for decades and consider their positions to be their full-time jobs.
Design Statement:
- In this case, my visualization works as an index in that it allows the audience to visually interrogate who the vulnerable communities of my research are. With these photos as indices, audiences can envision a spatial distribution of UC workers, specific positions, and their assigned daily duties.
- The photos can evoke some (UC related) viewers to recall a scene where they encountered a vulnerable community in their everyday life. These visualizations can help viewers to empathize with the positions and toxic injuries of the vulnerable community.