Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers
Sidney A. Rothstein, "Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers"
English | ISBN: 0197612873 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0197612873 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Does digital transformation make worker power impossible? Many seem to think so, especially those who see the Silicon Valley model as the best chance for economic growth in the twenty-first century. If economic growth requires deregulating markets for labor and finance capital, then labor's traditional power resources - especially institutions for social protection and the unions that support and enforce them - need to be dismantled. Rising inequality and spreading precarity are therefore inevitable and unavoidable in a world where workers cannot defend against employer discretion.
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