Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Norman Wilson’s 2011 short film, Workers Leaving the Googleplex, focuses on the same ScanOps contractors. In the grand NorCal tradition of labor-market segregation, these laborers carried unique yellow badges, though that was hardly necessary to mark them, Wilson writes: “It was the same group of workers, mostly black and Latino, on a campus of mostly white and Asian employees, walking out of the exit like a factory bell had just gone off.”25 They entered and exited at their own special scheduled times—4:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m.—