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“Like Hell on Earth:” former steelworker shares reflections, reviews Finally Got the News and Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men
My friend Bill retired to Bisbee after working in the Detroit steel mills for decades. When I got my copy of Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World, I shared ...
Vee & Me Up In Here
DMX is dead. Admittedly, when he blew up in late 1990s, he wasn’t my go to for hip hop, although I did appreciate him. He was unapologetically rough. He was uncompromisingly raw, despite slick production. That ...
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Microform
Back before I was let go from an asbestos law firm, I made copious use of microform records. I say microform because I make the distinction between rolls of microfilm; the small sheets properly called microfiche; ...
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Mask down, fists up: a day at work in the library
Like most workers, I don’t wake up in the morning thinking I’m going to get swung at while at my job. I’m a librarian, not a professional boxer or an MMA fighter. But on a Monday ...
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Dead Teachers Can’t Teach
Today, August 3rd teachers in Knoxville, Tennessee report to work. Despite climbing COVID rates and fears and anxieties of teachers, parents and students, the superintendent of Knox County schools has not backtracked from his plan to ...
“I don’t think Tyson’s gives two shits about their workers.”
It was the workers and their kids who shut down Tyson’s Waterloo, Iowa meatpacking plant on April 22, 2020. Not the governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, who seemed to show more concern for the hogs who ...
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Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examiner’s office after I heard Kathy had died.* My cubicle was in a cellar with an open floor plan, shared with other cubicles, and ...
An NYC Doctor’s Life During COVID-19
“I’m not heroic. I was never planning to be.” A 30-something year old New York City doctor gives an account of how COVID-19 has affected her life at work and home. The edited interview took place ...
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Teaching in the Time of COVID
Like thousands of professors around the country and the globe, I suddenly find myself conducting all my personal and professional affairs through my computer screen. Stationed on my couch as my classroom, office, and Kanopy ‘n ...
“We Need to Change the Way We Live”: An ICU Nurse Speaks Out
Today we caught up with Sam, a nurse working in a cardiac ICU unit at a medium-sized private hospital in Newark NJ. In Sam’s workplace, a nurse was recently suspended for organizing a gofundme page to ...
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