From electronic surveillance to automated management, Silicon Valley is developing new technologies for bosses to exert ever-greater power and control over workers. To fight back, we need more than turnout. We need strong, broad-based, worker- and community-led movements in which, in the words of political scientist Hahrie Hahn, “people are power, not props."
Join workers, organizers, and tech justice practitioners to explore why, when it comes to labor and technology, popular education is uniquely suited to help us build the shared analysis, strategy, and power with workers and community members that we urgently need to meet this moment. |
Join us for the release of Building Worker Power in the Digital Age: Popular Education Tools for Organizers, a new toolkit that contains a series of popular education modules and activities to facilitate worker- and community-based discussions, strategizing, and power building on workplace and social justice issues that intersect with work and technology.
This comprehensive toolkit was developed and piloted with app-based drivers in a year-long collaboration with PowerSwitch Action and Gig Workers Rising, with assistance from the Athena Coalition and the Right Question Institute.
A panel of workers, organizers, and labor and tech practitioners will consider the role popular education has to play in our movement as well as concrete strategies for how this toolkit can be used and adapted by unions, workers centers, and community organizations. Following discussion and Q&A, all participants will receive a copy of the toolkit. |
