Book 'Against Tech Oligarchy' chronicles rise and decline of tech worker movement and AI's role
MIT PhD student JS Tan and former Kickstarter employee Clarissa Redwine published Against Tech Oligarchy (Haymarket Books, 2026), a book tracing how tech workers organized successful protests (e.g., Project Maven) and later saw their leverage decline. The authors argue factors including the 2022 market downturn and agentic AI coding systems contributed to reduced worker influence as some companies moved toward classified Pentagon AI work.