STUDY LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN A DATA-­BASED SOCIETY Collective Data Ownership, Workers’ Rights, and the Role of the Public Sector Control over data and digital intelligence is the key ingredi­ent of power in the emerging digital society, increasingly shaping the global economic, social and political order. Widespread access to society’s data – currently in the hands of a few digital corporations – is a precondition for a fair economy, quality public services, public policy-making and democratic governance. Asserting collec­tive ownership rights over data is one of the most fundamental policy issues of our time. Parminder Jeet Singh January 2020 Public sector workers and their unions will need to play an important part in shaping the role of public sector in a digi­tal society – providing data and digital intelligence as pub­lic goods, ensuring the devel­opment of appropriate digital public institutions, and man­aging data infrastructures.