Against Tech Oligarchy: The Trial of Jeff Bezos

The authors of Against Tech Oligarchy bring together labor leaders and tech critics to pack the jury in the trial of a tech billionaire. Witnesses will present Bezos’ most notable injuries to the working class and together we’ll decide his fate. Join us for an event that is sure to be a boisterous, cathartic celebration of working class solidarity and power. Meet the Jury Lucy Suchman is professor emerita in the anthropology of science and technology at Lancaster University, UK. Her most recent article on military imaginaries of AI-enabled warfighting was published in the journal Social Studies of Science. Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. Among other things, her research examines the history of intellectual exchange between critical theorists, computer scientists, and other practitioners, with a focus on forms of conservatism and nationalism that are often perceived as antithetical to digital networks, yet increasingly prevalent among tech elites. Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker and writer whose work pushes the formal boundaries of political cinema. Her most recent feature documentary about the first unionized Amazon warehouse, Union (2024), premiered at Sundance 2024 where it won a Special Jury Prize and captured the spirit of the historic hot labour summer. Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry The Trial of Jeff Bezos is part of the Against Tech Oligarchy book tour. As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers have begun fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. The authors will be attending the event and signing books.