this may be controversial but I don’t think unions are a coherent way for software engineers to organize. unions depend on the delineation of task-defining labor and task-executing labor, and aren’t really compatible with the existing control these folks have over their work.
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apropos of nothing anyone cares about, the details of this stuff are super interesting 20 years later. I’m having to restrain myself from ranting extensively about it on twitter, but nobody cares, it’s ancient history.
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no, wait, it’s THIRTY years later, I am older than I remembered! Anyway, it’s mind-boggling that we all put up with office machinery with an MTBF of a few days, with a technician from Xerox having to drive out to the customer site to fix it each time might as well be steam
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I recommended this earlier elsewhere, but you also seem like a prime candidate to read this book. It's the founding history of modern engineering. A tough read (written in what I assume is the scholarly style of History, but fascinating and deep): https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Revolution-Enlightenment-France-1763-1815/dp/0226012646 …
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Reading it, I felt like a fish reading up on the history of water.
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