No glory in glorified babysitting
Submitted by Recomposition on Oct 29 2016 22:52
A piece from Daniel Cole who lives and works in Australia as a early childhood educator. His perspective shines light on what it’s like to do strenuous childcare work, and how managers and disconnected executives worsen the load by making ridiculous guidelines and demands, while pinning providers on a scale that doesn’t truly measure their experience and value. He aims to get other educators on board with imagining what it would be like to autonomously run childhood centers, and what can be done to organize in that direction.
Hospital Voice
Partial online archive of a radical bulletin produced for hospital workers in Philadelphia, beginning in November 1970.
Solidarity forever: an oral history of the IWW - Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 30 2016 10:29
A fantastic oral history of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union, based on interviews done for the award-winning documentary, The Wobblies (1979). Compiled by filmmakers Stewart Bird and academy-award-winning director Deborah Shaffer, with historical introductions to each section of interviews by labor historian Dan Georgakas.
Paperboy of the 1990s - Juan Conatz
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 23 2016 21:13
A brief indulgence in 1990s nostalgia by Juan Conatz, centering on his first job.
The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 9 2015 09:53
Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by white housewives to perform domestic tasks at extremely low wages.
Breaks - Scott Nappalos & Monica Kostas
Submitted by Recomposition on Oct 10 2015 20:20
A short account about breaks at work and life under capitalism.
Seeing past the luxury label part II: H&M in Hamburg, Germany and their suppliers in Delhi, India
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Sep 23 2015 16:36
Interesting look at the working conditions and workers' resistance in H&M warehouses in Germany and factories in India.
Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance (review)
By Scott Nikolas Nappalos, ed. (Alberta, Canada: Black Cat Press, 2013). Review by Jared Davidson, first published in LHP Bulletin 64.
Withered aristocracy #2 - heavy construction and critical faculties
Submitted by Schwarz on Jul 30 2015 22:14
An attempt at an explanation for the long absence of the Withered Aristocracy blog.
New series of factory stories from China
Submitted by Nao on Jul 30 2015 15:09
Chinese worker activists have been documenting and analyzing the situation and struggles of factory workers in the Pearlriverdelta in South China over the past few years. Since 2012 they have been publishing reports the magazine "Factory Stories" (工厂龙门阵 gongchang longmenzhen).
