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“An Incredible Catch-22”: An Emergency Nurse Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis

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HC: Tell us what you do for work. I am an emergency department nurse in Oregon.ย  HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people ...

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โ€œYouโ€™re Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Overโ€: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union

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HC: Tell us what you do for work.ย  Iโ€™m a fast food worker. I work mostly the grill at a fast food place at the Portland Airport–a company called Burgerville. I also do a shit ton ...

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โ€œAmazon is Knowingly Putting Their Customers at Riskโ€: A Florida Amazon worker speaks out

Will

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I work for Amazon out here in Miami. Working conditions are less than optimal. We are constantly breathing in a bunch of dust all day, in the back of trailers for hours on end with no ...

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โ€œRight Now Everything is a Mess!โ€: Conversations with an MTA Train Conductor

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The MTA in New York City and the surrounding suburbs employs 74,000 workers. It has disclosed that there are 23 people who have tested positive for the Covid-19. Leo is one of 7,000 workers in his ...

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โ€œI Want To Learn Everything!โ€: The Proletarian โ€œIโ€

Curtis Price

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By the early twentieth century, literacy rates in Russia substantially increased among urban workers and peasants as a result of extending public education to previous illiterate sectors of the population. This drive toward adult education was ...

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Shingles

Richard Dixon

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This morning a continuation of the wonderful weather everyoneโ€™s been enjoying the past few weeks; mid-October, early fall, Indian summer. Cool, mid-fifty degree mornings; warm, mid-70s afternoons, balmy breezes (even when itโ€™s windy it feels great), ...

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The black hole of my job

Mitch Runnels

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The event horizon of a black hole is the line beyond which all possible paths forward in time lead to the center of the black hole. It is the dividing line between regions of space where ...

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Bookstore adventures

Matt Capri

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From 1992 to 1998 I worked at a large independent bookstore. Mostly I worked in the store room. They started me on paperback literature which was a mess. My task was to alphabetize and stack the ...

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Third Class

Matt Capri

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When I was working at a failing radical newspaper some thirty years ago, someone gave me the task of preparing a third-class mailing. This meant hand-processing about 5,000 envelopes, maybe more. Third-class mailings are supposed to ...

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David Ranney “Living and Dying on the Factory Floor” Upcoming NYC Book Tour

Noel Ignatiev

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Hard Crackers is excited to co-sponsor a series of talks with David Ranney about his new book. Recently, Jarrod Shanahan caught up with David Ranney to discuss his book and the important lessons for today. Check ...

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