Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Roy, Rianka

doi:10.1080/00472336.2022.2110925

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“…This includes video game producers in Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as tech workers in India (e.g. Keogh & Abraham 2022; Pottenger 2020; Roy 2022; Woodcock 2020). Despite the popular belief that tech work is privileged and ‘white-collar’, with good salaries and a bohemian lifestyle, journalistic reports reveal that this work experience is often mixed with stress, long working hours, insecurity, and institutional gender discrimination against women (see, for example, The Economist 2019).…”

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Tech worker activism against gender discrimination in China

Liu

2023

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This article discusses the discriminatory, anti-women workplace culture in China’s tech industry and how tech workers organise online activism in response. In August 2021, an online petition broke out to demand justice for a sexual crime victim at the Chinese e-commerce enterprise Alibaba. This is a powerful example of digital activism leaping beyond the constraints and challenges of labour organising in the global tech sector. The article shows how social media could bring new possibilities to the tech worker movement in both authoritarian and democratic countries.

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