Discoverlibrarypunk156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter
156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter

156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter

Update: 2025-11-01
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We’re talking with Kevin again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.


 


Twitter: https://x.com/AmericanWork47 


readingstruggles.info


notesfrombelow.org 


 


Media mentioned


The American Worker on COVER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikphd5bNza4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ff9eaa73e-0b64-4316-a994-c97369b4e555.usrfiles.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY


“Searching for the American Worker” https://newpol.org/issue_post/searching-for-the-american-worker/


Culbertson, Anna W. “Our Labor, Our Terms: Workers’ Inquiry in Libraries,” in “Assemblage, Inquiry, and Common Work in Library and Information Studies,” eds. Melissa Adler and Andrew Lau. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 4; https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/175 (CC BY-NC)


In and against the state: discussion notes for socialists. https://libcom.org/book/export/html/31378 


Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. https://www.readingstruggles.info/


Guerillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. https://www.akpress.org/guerrillas-of-desire.html 


Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/bgobg2t9 


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156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter

156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter

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