We also believe that it is a story worth understanding because of what it can tell us about the future of worker organizing at tech companies more broadly.
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We believe that this is a story worth telling for itself. You will meet the organizers of the drive - including Clarissa - and understand what happened at Kickstarter and why it worked. The Kickstarter Union Oral History (currently available as part of the Engelberg Center Live podcast feed) will bring you inside the one of the first successful company-wide internet tech worker unionization drives.
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That is why we are so excited to introduce a new podcast series from Engelberg Center Fellow Clarissa Redwine. This means that, just as you need to understand large tech companies to understand the future of innovation law and policy, you need to understand tech worker movements to understand the future of large tech companies. Tech workers have organized hundreds of internal collective actions designed to influence their employers. A ‘climate strike’ by Amazon employees pushed the company to adopt a climate change pledge. An internal petition from Google employees pressured the company to terminate work on a Pentagon program using machine learning to improve targeting for drone strikes. Increasingly, it is the employees of these companies that have the power to make real change. Consumers search for ways to have their voices heard. Governments search for ways to regulate them. That is a broad area of study, and one that is influenced in a myriad of ways by large tech companies.īut who has influence on tech companies? There is a seemingly endless list of entities that are trying. The Engelberg Center is devoted to the study of innovation law and policy. Who really influences big tech companies?
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