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Loss Prevention

Zhandarka Kurti

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Grey and cloudy days like today make the Bronx look uglier. The streets are strewn with garbage, the sidewalks smeared with dog shit, and some old lady is likely to poke you with her umbrella. Nonetheless ...

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Three barbers working furiously… and a fourth murdered

Kingsley Clarke

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It has become a tradition in Chicago for black barbers to give free haircuts to neighborhood schoolboys during the last days before school commences. (Chicago Public Schools open Tuesday.) I walked by the neighborhood barber shop ...

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Beyond A Boundary

Curtis Price

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On a job in an upscale Baltimore assisted-living facility that I worked at for far too long, going to work meant dealing with a running quasi-racial tension where lines were sharply drawn and people adhered to ...

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Thinking about Papa Heinz

Luis Brennan

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Ketchup makes bad fake blood Because it doesnโ€™t stir the right Kind of horror or nervousness. Itโ€™s too sweet looking and gooey. The red it all wrong and dried it Doesnโ€™t leave that flat rust stain ...

#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work

โ€œHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ€ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโ€™s Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โ€œYou grab as much sex as the ...

Marching into Low-Wage America With God on Their Side

Curtis Price

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The Von Braun Center sits in downtown Huntsville, a brutalist concrete slab of a building that reminds you of an old Stasi interrogation and torture center. Or, more appropriately, a Nazi one. Wernher Von Braun, the ...
WEB DuBois

The two finest things

W.E.B. DuBois

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โ€œWhy, do you know the two finest things in the industry of the West, finer than factory, shop or ship? One is the black laborersโ€™s Saturday off. Neither the whip of the driver, nor the starvation ...

The Autonomous Unemployed in the Netherlands

Curtis Price

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  by Curtis Price In the late 1980s, the Netherlands, like many European countries, was faced with long-term unemployment. Concern arose among Dutch policy makers that changing conditions were creating a U.S. style โ€œunderclassโ€: a mass ...

An excerpt from โ€˜If He Hollers Let Him Go,โ€™ by Chester Himes, 1945

James Murray

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posted by James Murray   โ€œโ€ฆbut as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As ...

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The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical

John Garvey

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Alfred Sohn-Rethel Alfred Sohn-Rethel was the author ofย Economy and Class Structure in German Fascism andย Intellectual and Manual Labor: a critique of epistemologyโ€”two important works on economics and philosophy.ย  He spent time in Naples during the 1920s ...

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