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Mark Nowak, Coal Mountain Elementary Coffee House Press, 2009

Mark Nowak's blog

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics

Dark and forbidding: it's a phrase that describes the lives of miners, who often toil for unconscionably low wages in one of the most dangerous industries in the world. Miners and the social and political forces that fuel deadly mining practices have attracted the attention of the poet and labor activist Mark Nowak. He talks as well about trade union movements and transnational conversations among working people.

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Michael Yates, Why Unions Matter Monthly Review Press, 2009 (2nd ed.)

Michael Yates, In and Out of the Working Class Arbeiter Ring, 2009

Union membership has been falling for decades, yet trade unions still give workers significant power on the job. And there are great hopes that the decline in union density may be reversed, with some pinning their hopes on the Employee Free Choice Act. Michael Yates discusses organized labor, EFCA, radicalism and working class identity.

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David Harvey, A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism Oxford U. Press, 2007

 

There was too much money floating around. It had to be put somewhere, and clever people in the financial markets knew it. So begins one of David Harvey's many insights into the origins of the economic mess that nations around the world are scrambling to address. And Howard Kimeldorf talks about the Seattle General Strike of 1919 in relation to the long tradition of labor syndicalism.