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Join us for a free lively conversation about Against Tech Oligarchy, the gripping chronicle of tech worker organizing in the Trump era from two of its most celebrated organizers. Celebrated author, Malcolm Harris, will lead a rousing discussion with authors Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan on the past, present, and future of the tech worker movement in the United States, and what it can teach us about worker resistance in the digital age. About Against Tech Oligarchy As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement&mdash;and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. After Donald Trump&rsquo;s election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with workers and CEOs alike joining mass mobilizations against the new president&rsquo;s anti-immigrant policies. But it wasn&rsquo;t long before the tech bosses started to fall in line with the new administration. In response, tens of thousands of tech workers protested against their own employers for betraying the progressive values that once defined the industry&mdash;including organizing against military contracts, walking out to protest sexism, and even launching a wave of union drives. By the early 2020s, these workers had sparked what observers were calling the tech worker movement, one that seemed capable of checking the industry&rsquo;s reckless growth and reactionary drift. But as their struggle grew, so did the employers&rsquo; backlash. A new class consciousness took root among tech&#39;s billionaire owners. Hell-bent on stamping out any and all dissent, tech executives embraced Trumpism, fired organizers, and began lashing out against the &ldquo;woke&rdquo; ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them&mdash;and replacing the good tech jobs of the 2010s with incessant layoffs, grind culture, and a management style that treats workers as disposable. Against Tech Oligarchy &nbsp;provides a gripping account of this inspiring workers&#39; movement and the rise of the hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today. JS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech. His work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Dissent, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, The Baffler, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Clarissa Redwine helped organize the Kickstarter union and cofounded the tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers. Her organizing work has been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch, and elsewhere. Malcolm Harris is the author of the national bestseller Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials; and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.

Join us for a free lively conversation about Against Tech Oligarchy, the gripping chronicle of tech worker organizing in the Trump era from two of its most celebrated organizers. Celebrated author, Malcolm Harris, will lead a rousing discussion with authors Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan on the past, present, and future of the tech worker movement in the United States, and what it can teach us about worker resistance in the digital age. About Against Tech Oligarchy As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. After Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with workers and CEOs alike joining mass mobilizations against the new president’s anti-immigrant policies. But it wasn’t long before the tech bosses started to fall in line with the new administration. In response, tens of thousands of tech workers protested against their own employers for betraying the progressive values that once defined the industry—including organizing against military contracts, walking out to protest sexism, and even launching a wave of union drives. By the early 2020s, these workers had sparked what observers were calling the tech worker movement, one that seemed capable of checking the industry’s reckless growth and reactionary drift. But as their struggle grew, so did the employers’ backlash. A new class consciousness took root among tech's billionaire owners. Hell-bent on stamping out any and all dissent, tech executives embraced Trumpism, fired organizers, and began lashing out against the “woke” ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them—and replacing the good tech jobs of the 2010s with incessant layoffs, grind culture, and a management style that treats workers as disposable. Against Tech Oligarchy  provides a gripping account of this inspiring workers' movement and the rise of the hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today. JS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech. His work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Dissent, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, The Baffler, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Clarissa Redwine helped organize the Kickstarter union and cofounded the tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers. Her organizing work has been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch, and elsewhere. Malcolm Harris is the author of the national bestseller Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials; and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.

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