Tech Workers Coalition Interview With Ann Hyoung

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Anne hyoung is a media artist interested in technology and labor. As part of her research, she's looking into the organizing that happened at i b m during the 19 sixties and 19 seventies. This conversation is based on some news letters that anne wrote for the tech workers coalition last year as well as recent article in wyrd. And so i think t this is a really interesting conversation because it gives us insight into this organizing that was happening in a different per of the tekh industry.

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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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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