Tech Won't Save Us - Tech Workers Coalition

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Tech workers coalition will be doing a teach in and story sharing between elders and contemporary organizers in the tech industry. Anne said that a date has not been set for that yet, but i did ask her to let me know when that's going to happen. If anyone knows or is an i b m worker from that period, feel free to reach out to anne because she's still looking to speak to people for her research. And so it that said, thanks again to everybody who supported the show last month in april. I hope you enjoy this week's conversation.

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.

Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.

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.
Tech Won’t Save Us is looking for a producer.

Support the show