Organizing High-Tech Blue-Collar Workers

There were many attempts during the '70s and '80s at organizing blue-collar workers in Silicon Valley. Studying this history can give us valuable lessons in how to go about organizing today in the tech industry.

Readings

• Organizing High Tech: Unions & Their Future (Labor Research Review, 1986)

Discussion Questions

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Extra Readings

• Up Against the Open Shop - the Hidden Story of Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Workers (TruthOut, 2011)