What has been the tech oligarch playbook for labor repression, why have tech billionaires mutated into oligarchs, and how does far-right culture-war politics benefit the oligarchic class?
How did Kickstarter become the first company to unionize in the tech sector and what made it almost unique?
How has labor organizing of tech workers changed from the early 2010s to today?
And what makes exercising worker power in the tech sector unique compared to workers in the economy at large?
JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine join me to discuss their incredible new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry.
Also this episode:
The Trump administration designates Palestine Action a global terrorist organization;
Fascist geopolitics propels the US toward trying to annex Canada;
CIA operations in Mexico; and
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces an economic “D-Day” threat on Iran that he can’t fully implement.
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