The work culture at rich tech companies (people read something upsetting in the news and want to discuss and 'process' it on company time) is so alien from most people's experience of work that it makes me despair for ever finding common ground with the actual working class
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I remember an early Tech Solidarity meeting where a number of electricians joined us to talk about organizing. "What do you guys want?" they asked. The tech workers had no clear answer. "Well, a lot of us were getting electrocuted, so we started a union" the electricians said.
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High-end tech jobs are like college that never ends. People want their dean of students and codes of conduct and for everything to be ultimately fair and properly adjudicated by the administrators. It makes the workforce extraordinarily passive, as students ultimately are
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The tension between what US tech workplace activists say they want (diversity and inclusion) and their demands in practice (ideological conformity) is also a strong deterrent to meaningful collective action, something management at the big tech companies has noticed and embraced.
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Can you explain how that deterrence works in practice?
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By tying the idea of collective action to a broader social justice agenda, it ensures that collective action for narrow goals will not happen. Internal group dynamics within the small subset of activist employees then reward ideological purity and bravery over practical appeal.
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