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#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work
โHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโs Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โYou grab as much sex as the ...
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Marching into Low-Wage America With God on Their Side
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 ...
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The two finest things
โWhy, do you know the two finest things in the industry of the West, finer than factory, shop or ship? One is the black laborersโs Saturday off. Neither the whip of the driver, nor the starvation ...
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The Autonomous Unemployed in the Netherlands
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 โunderclassโ: a mass ...
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An excerpt from โIf He Hollers Let Him Go,โ by Chester Himes, 1945
posted by James Murray โโฆbut 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 ...
The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical
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 epistemologyโtwo important works on economics and philosophy.ย He spent time in Naples during the 1920s ...
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Cocaine, Kanye West and Shitty Jobs
by Zhandarka Kurtiย Around this time last year, I met Mike, a black man in his mid 40s, in the offices of a non-profit organization working with formerly incarcerated people. Its offices are located in a ...
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BOTH KINDS
By Kingsley Clarke Adel, Iowa 1986 Frankly, I cannot recall whether or not I have actuallyย had a Bud Light. In 1986 I went back to Adel, Iowa, for my twenty-fifth high school class reunion. Adel was ...
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People Simply Empty Out
In 1969, publisherย John Martinย offered to payย Charles Bukowskiย $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a full-time writer. 49-year-old Bukowski ...
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Hard Crackers Event
Hard Crackers Event: Sunday, September 17, 2017 ย Hard Crackersย is honored to be hosting David Ranney for a reading from his book-length memoir, still in manuscript form, titled Outside In and Inside Out: Living and Working ...
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