书籍与电影

Capturing Labor: A History of Unfree Work in the Southwest

A collection of essays grappling with the many, often overlooked, forms of unfree labor in the West. When Americans think of unfree labor—coerced, extracted from workers unable to freely enter and exit contracts—what comes to mind is Black slavery and peonage in the South.

Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter

This is a memoir of Appalachia, a region often stereotyped as “a place to escape from, where people are hateful, lazy, and bring tragedy upon themselves.” Beth Howard has a different story to tell, both in growing up there and in an unlooked for history of the place. Howard shares the emotional wounds her childhood left her with, but also realizes the…

Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement

In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focusing on the struggles against white supremacy and racism in the workplace, union, and respective communities in and around Chicago, including Northwest Indiana. Comparing unions in the steel and meatpacking industries during the critical…

O pobre de direita: A vingança dos bastardos

WHY DO THE POOR VOTE FOR THE RIGHT? 📍This is the question Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza answers in his book The Right-Wing Poor: The Revenge of the Bastards (2024), and his answer is uncomfortable: it was never about economics.

Troublemakers

A documentary about the organization of New Left. In the film, Tom Hayden and a group of students from the Students for a Democratic Society movement are being followed.