{"product_id":"against-tech-oligarchy-worker-resistance-in-the-worlds-most-powerful-industry","title":"Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003eby JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaymarket Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9\/15\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: \u003cspan\u003e9798888908570\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003etech worker movement\u003c\/em\u003e, one that seemed capable of checking the industry's reckless growth and reactionary drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Tech Oligarchy \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a gripping account of this inspiring workers' movement and the rise of the hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Tech Oligarchy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers an illuminating and deeply self-reflective history of the tech worker movement that diagnoses why it struggled to deliver lasting change and how it must reform to hold tech companies accountable. At a time when Silicon Valley is more powerful than ever and threatens the very foundations of democracy, their rallying cry for more radical dissent among the industry's own employees could not have come soon enough.\" \u003c\/span\u003e--Karen Hao, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/empire-of-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-in-sam-altmans-openai-2?variant=52229303107867\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An indispensable analysis of the tech worker movement from two of its luminaries. This is an essential book for understanding class struggle under digital capitalism.\" --Ben Tarnoff, coauthor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuskism: A Guide for the Perplexed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"Silicon Valley's image as a worker's paradise--generous salaries, lavish perks, and a 'bring your whole self to work' ethos--has given way to grinding hours, mass layoffs, and extractive labor practices. \u003cem\u003eAgainst Tech Oligarchy\u003c\/em\u003e traces this shift and tells the story of how tech workers are fighting back.\" --Zoë Schiffer, author of \u003cem\u003eExtremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"Organizing tech workers is hard, but it offers crucial lessons to everyone, especially as AI begins to transform labor politics. In this valuable new book, JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine explain the successes and failures of the last decade and lay out the agenda for what comes next.\" --Henry Farrell, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eUnderground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJS Tan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a PhD candidate at MIT and a former Microsoft employee. His work has been featured in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMIT Technology Review\u003c\/em\u003e, among other outlets, and his writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eDissent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJacobin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClarissa Redwine\u003c\/strong\u003e is a tech worker and labor activist. She helped organize the industry's first wall-to-wall union at Kickstarter in 2019 and, as a fellow at NYU Law, she produced a beloved oral history that chronicled the historic win. In 2023, she cofounded Circuit Breakers, the world's first labor conference dedicated to organizing the tech industry. Her work in the labor movement has been featured in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eBBC\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Verge\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTechCrunch\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other news outlets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53958133842203,"sku":"Against Tech Oligarchy","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/9798888908570.jpg?v=1789769591","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/against-tech-oligarchy-worker-resistance-in-the-worlds-most-powerful-industry","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}