Week 12 Lecture - Silicon Valley and the U.S.

Lisa Yan, November 12th, 2024

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Kerr. FTC Chair Lina Khan’s lawsuit isn’t about breaking up Amazon, for now. NPR. 2023.
• Required [Ed post] Gedye. Court Upholds Prop. 22 in Big Win for Gig Firms Like Lyft and Uber. KQED. 2023.
• Required [Ed post] Giblin and Doctorow. Chokepoint Capitalism: Chapter 1. 2022.
• Optional [Ed post] Kolhatkar. Lina Khan’s Battle to Rein in Big Tech. The New Yorker. 2021.
• Optional [Ed post] Hussain. Prop. 22: California gig companies, workers get their day in appeals court. The Los Angeles Times. 2022.
• Optional [Ed post] Giblin and Doctorow. Chokepoint Capitalism: Chapter 2. 2022.

CS H195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Clark. The year labor organizing came to tech. Axios. 2022.
• Required [Ed post] Esquivel. Vote by UC graduate student workers to ratify labor agreement exposed a sharp divide among campuses. The Los Angeles Times. 2022.
• Required [Ed post] UC Rank-and-File Committee. The UAW cannot be trusted to oversee the University of California contract vote!. 2022.
• Optional [Ed post] Marcus Day. UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman submits official protest challenging voter suppression in elections. 2022.