This is a very timely and elegantly written book on the capacity of contemporary tech workers to exercise collective agency with their employers, defend their jobs and, at least potentially, rebuild a labor movement in our time. By weaving innovative theoretical argument together with lucid and granular empirical reconstructions of labor struggles in Germany and the United States, Recoding Power develops an astonishingly hopeful account of contemporary labor possibilities in the modern digital economy.
Sidney A. Rothstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College. He has published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, German Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Review of International Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, and Studies in American Political Development, and co-edited (with Tobias Schulze-Cleven) Imbalance: Germany's Political Economy After the Social Democratic Century (Routledge, 2021).