Toward Realignment: Big Tech, Organized Labor, and the Politics of the Future of Work
Nantina Vgontzas
Abstract:A future that revalues workers will require not only revitalizing the U.S. labor movement but realigning its political alliances and, specifically, eschewing compromises that further entrench big tech as a center of neoliberal power. During the twentieth century, the Democratic Party incorporated organized labor by linking the micropolitics of capitalist shopfloor control to a macropolitics of industrial growth and full employment. This framework of political incorporation foreclosed the wider class solidarity… Show more
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