Read to Respond: Labor

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. This post focuses on labor, worker’s rights, and neoliberalism. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Labor

• “Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts: An Interview with David Graeber”
  Hannah Chadeayne Appel
  Radical History Review, number 118
  Winter 2014
• Mothering Through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media
  Julie A.Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim
  2017
• “‘A Woman’s Place Is in the UMWA’: Women Miners and the Struggle for a Democratic Union in Western Pennsylvania, 1973–1979”
  Trish Kahle
  Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, volume 13, issue 1
  February 2016
• “Trump’s Savage Capitalism: The Nightmare is Real”
  Enzo Traverso
  World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
  Spring 2017
• Against the Day: “Migrant Workers and New Forms of Exploitation: Europe and Beyond”
  Rutvica Andrijasevic and Devi Sacchetto, editors
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 114, issue 1
  January 2015
• Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
  James Ferguson
  2015
• “Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure”
  Shannon Cram
  Public Culture, volume 28, issue 3
  September 2016
• Youth, Labor and Politics in East Asia
  Gabriella Lukacs, editor
  positions: asia critique, volume 23, issue 3
  August 2015
• Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
  Denise Brennan
  2014
• Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
  Kathleen Barry
  2007

These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.