What's Your Story?

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i feel like there's an explicit effort to insure that there's not much known about the history of the industry. What is known is in service of, you know, the major tec companies that exist today and kind of the ideas that people want to have about the tech industry itself. And then there's also a lack of interest from the media in covering these stories as well. There was tons of zenes and news letters, like i i'm so grateful to a doctor hudson for sharing all his news letters from the b w a with me. But if he hadn't shared those, no, they're not archived anywhere, so there's no way to have access to those

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.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

ann wrote about IBM organizing for Wired, and put together a four-part series on her research for Tech Workers Coalition.
Science for the People published an article about tech worker organizing in the 1960s and 1970s.
Logic Magazine spoke to Joan Greenbaum about the early days of tech worker organizing.
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