Tech Worker Movement Against Industry Power Faces Backlash, New Book Chronicles

Former tech workers JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine have published "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry" (Haymarket Books, 2026), chronicling how tech employees organized over the past decade.

The book traces early successes, including Google's 2018 decision not to renew its Project Maven Pentagon contract after employee protests.

It also argues that rising interest rates, job-security fears, and agentic AI coding tools have weakened worker leverage.