Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry
by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine
How Silicon Valley became a ruling class.
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you're furious at the tech bros in power and want to understand how they got there
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The tech industry spent decades telling us it was building the future — turns out it was mostly building a class. Against Tech Oligarchy traces how a remarkable wave of worker resistance rose inside Silicon Valley after 2016, as tens of thousands of engineers and designers protested anti-immigrant policies, refused military contracts, and built the first tech unions. Then it shows exactly how the billionaires fought back: mass layoffs, loyalty purges, and a deliberate embrace of Trumpism that turned disruption into a ruling-class politics. This is the story of how Big Tech became oligarchy — and of the workers who saw it coming and organized anyway. It's the framework for understanding the world you're reading the news in every morning.
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This is exactly the book for the moment after you've rage-quit Twitter and installed Signal and started wondering who exactly is steering the ship. Tan and Redwine are not outside observers — they were in the rooms where tech workers tried to organize, and they bring that specificity to every chapter. Published September 2026 right as the tech-oligarchy story is hitting full steam, this is the rigorous inside account we've needed.
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