For the next three months, I’ll be working with the social reading platform Threadable. In my reading circle “On Labor Rights” we will discuss labor rights with a focus on conditions in meatpacking, mining, and manufacturing. How can workers organize to resist a system that treats them as disposable? I’m excited to be able to discuss and work through ideas that are a part of my forthcoming book The Life and Death of the American Worker (Astra House, 2024). I will prepare each text with comments and quotes from my interviews and research on labor rights with a focus on the meatpacking industry.
Our first reading is a chapter from Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press. Other readings include chapters from A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera, Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism by Jason Strange, and Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hershey.
The app is free and I love the idea of being able to share reading and interviews that have moved me and changed the way I think about labor rights. For now, this is an iOS app only.
Click here to download the app and join my circle.
Looking forward to discussing books with y’all!
Alice
For those of us who don't have iPhones (and therefore can't download the app), would you mind sharing your reading list another way? Even if I can't participate in the discussion, I'd be interested in the reading list.
Someone passed this on to me. Can't join your circle thru the link; what's your 5-digit code for the circle? Thanks