单选题   Para. 1 ①The most remarkable aspect of the walkout at Google last week may not have been that an estimated 20,000 people participated or that it had global reach, or even that it came together in less than a week ②It was the way the organizers identified their action with a broader worker struggle, using language almost unheard-of among affluent tech employees.
    Para. 2 'This is part of a growing movement,' the organizers wrote in a news release, 'not just in tech, but across the country, including teachers, fast-food workers and others who are using their strength in numbers to make real change.'
    Para. 3 At the beginning of their protest near the company's San Francisco offices, the organizers even expressed support for Marriott workers on strike in the city.
    Para. 4 ①For decades, Silicon Valley has been ground zero for a vaguely utopian form of individualism—the idea that a single engineer with a laptop and an internet connection could change the world, or at least a long-established industry. ②Class-consciousness was passé. ③Unions were the enemy of innovation, an anchor to the status quo.
    Para. 5 ①But the issues that contributed to the walkout at Google—the company's controversial work with the Pentagon on artificial intelligence, and its handling of sexual harassment accusations against senior managers—proved too large for any worker to confront alone, even if that worker made mid-six figures. ②They required a form of solidarity that would be recognizable to the most militant 20th century labor organizers.
    Para. 6 ①'The myth of Silicon Valley is that all the power you need is embodied in you as an individual—if you want more money, go somewhere else,' said Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California, Berkeley. ②'What they were saying here was that all the economic power they had as individuals wasn't enough.'
    Para. 7 And the consequences of that dawning realization, Shaiken and other labor experts said, could reverberate across the entire tech sector.
    Para. 8 Organizers say they're confident that the protests will only escalate if the chief executive, Sundar Pichai, and his team don't put forth a plan to act on some of their demands, among them a worker representative on the board of Google's parent company, and an end to employment contracts that prevent class-action lawsuits and require individual arbitration for discrimination and harassment cases.
    Para. 9 ①'Employees have raised constructive ideas for how we can improve our policies and our processes going forward,' Pichai said in a statement. ②'We are taking in all their feedback so we can turn these ideas into action.'
    Para. 10 Labor experts said any changes precipitated by the walkout could spread through Silicon Valley.
    Para. 11 'These companies are competing for employees,' said Matthew Bodie, a law professor at St. Louis University who is a former lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board.
    Para. 12 'If employees at Facebook are looking at this and saying 'Wow, that was impressive,'' Bodie said, then Facebook may have to follow suit.