Category Archive for:
Work
Search
Search by Category
- Abolitionism (18)
- Announcement (37)
- Art (9)
- Black Lives Matter (17)
- Books (28)
- Border (1)
- Capitalism (41)
- Conspiracy Theories (3)
- COVID-19 (61)
- Crime & Illegality (5)
- Education (11)
- Elections (35)
- Environment (6)
- Everyday Life (118)
- Fascism (16)
- From the Archives (59)
- Gender (2)
- George Floyd Rebellion (21)
- Healthcare (13)
- Immigration (11)
- Indigenous Struggles (1)
- January 6th (2)
- LGBTQIA (5)
- Mass Media (13)
- Mass Shootings (1)
- Movies & TV (24)
- Music (23)
- Organizing (48)
- Palestine (17)
- Poetry (3)
- Police (36)
- Pop Culture (36)
- Prison (29)
- Protest & Resistance (35)
- Race (54)
- Remembrance / Obituary (24)
- Repression (8)
- Reproductive Justice (13)
- Revolution (3)
- South Africa (14)
- Sports (18)
- Trump (41)
- US History (42)
- War (15)
- White Supremacy (31)
- Work (46)
- World History (17)
“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 ...
CATEGORY:
“An Incredible Catch-22”: An Emergency Nurse Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis
HC: Tell us what you do for work. I am an emergency department nurse in Oregon. HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people ...
CATEGORY:
“You’re Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Over”: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union
HC: Tell us what you do for work. I’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 ...
CATEGORY:
“Amazon is Knowingly Putting Their Customers at Risk”: A Florida Amazon worker speaks out
|
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 ...
“Right Now Everything is a Mess!”: Conversations with an MTA Train Conductor
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 ...
“I Want To Learn Everything!”: The Proletarian “I”
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 ...
CATEGORY:
Shingles
This morning a continuation of the wonderful weather everyone’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 it’s windy it feels great), ...
CATEGORY:
The black hole of my job
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 ...
CATEGORY:
Bookstore adventures
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 ...
Third Class
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 ...
CATEGORY: