Clarissa Redwine & JS Tan: Against Tech Oligarchy

Authors and longtime tech-worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan discuss Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, an inside account of the rise of the tech-worker movement and the backlash it triggered across Silicon Valley. Drawing on firsthand organizing experience and years of research, the book traces campaigns against military contracts, workplace sexism, mass layoffs, and anti-union practices while examining how political and economic power shifted inside the technology industry.

The conversation looks beyond individual companies to consider how workers attempted to challenge some of the world’s most powerful employers, where those movements succeeded and struggled, and what their experiences might mean for labor organizing in an industry increasingly shaped by AI, billionaire ownership, and political influence.