In putting together those resolutions, that also gave you a certain degree of protection, because it was submitted at a shareholders meeting. And so the company couldn't then retaliate against the employees or the workers for putting that information out there. I wonder if like this type of family style culture, it's very maybe to tuk companies, and something that may be started with i b m. But ibeam was very effective in making people feel like they owed their lives, basically, to this corporation.
Paris Marx is joined by ann haeyoung to discuss IBM worker organizing in the 1970s and 1980s against racism and apartheid, and how those stories are important to informing tech organizing in the present.
ann haeyoung is a media artist interested in technology and labor. She is also a former tech worker and organizer, and a graduate student at UCLA.
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