Critique of digital technology by “workers from the middle”

Special report: Digital critique
Collective identity and project-based mobilization within the “Onestla.tech” community
By Clément Mabi, Irénée Régnauld
English

This article reports on an inquiry on the “Onestla.tech” collective, made up of developers, designers, project managers, “agilists” and everyone that contributes to shaping the digital reality in companies. These “workers from the middle”, a category that is often invisibilized, helped to bring to the fore critique of the industry when they first mobilized against the pension reform in 2019. The article shows that the collective initiated a dynamic to resolve the disquiet experienced by some of them in relation to the tech world and particularly the “startup nation”. A community quickly aggregated around a critical vision of technology and digital technology in particular. Significant ideological and strategic divergences do nevertheless run through the collective. The study shows that these weaknesses are currently offset by the sharing of a digital culture and modes of action that we call “project-based mobilization”.

  • digital critique
  • workers from the middle
  • startup nation
  • strike
  • project-based mobilization
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