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tech industry

SOURCE: Wired
2/8/2022

Women in Tech have been Pulling the Second Shift for Decades

“The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that what women do in the home isn’t work,” says Joy Rankin, a historian of computing.

SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/10/2020

Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up.

by Stacy Mitchell

A handful of tech companies constitute a private government with potentially dangerous control over information and commerce. Congress should boost antitrust law to reduce this power.