A new book titled Against Tech Oligarchy, authored by MIT PhD candidate JS Tan and Kickstarter union organizer Clarissa Redwine, is now available for pre-order. The book chronicles the rise of the tech worker movement that followed Trump's 2016 election — tens of thousands of workers who organized against military contracts, sexism, and immigration policy — and the coordinated employer counter-offensive that followed, including mass layoffs, firings of organizers, and the ideological hardening of Silicon Valley's billionaire class.
The book's framing is directly relevant to AI-industry readers: it traces how the same executive cohort now steering foundation-model companies and AI policy consolidated power partly by crushing internal dissent. Authors Tan and Redwine are credentialed organizers with bylines in the NYT, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, and The Baffler. Praise from Ben Tarnoff (co-author of Muskism) positions it within a growing critical literature on tech capital. No publication date is listed yet; editors should revisit when a pub date, excerpt, or review copy surfaces.