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Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Book Talks, where we explore ideas that shape our world. Book talks highlight the work of authors and writers while discussing their inspirations, their challenges, and what keeps them hopeful.
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Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy
“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal...We held these bad boss contests. Where the first winner was...
Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder with author Christian Parenti
“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear...
Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander
his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri
Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith Angwin: Author of Shorting the Grid
Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the U
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed - Book Talks
“Water is an issue that can unite people. Water is life. Their slogans were always very powerfully pro water, less anti mining. And...
Bill Fletcher Jr.’s novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky - Book Talks
Bill Fletcher pulls together history and mystery to create an exciting and compelling story of race and revenge.
Quarantine with Rilke with Poet and Author Asnia Asim - Artist Spotlight Series
Asnia Asim is a poet and writer and her new book of poems, Quarantine with Rilke, shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self, a quiet
How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media
“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in...
The Future We Need by Erica Smiley & Sarita Gupta - Harmony of Interest Book Talks
In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could...
The Activist Spirit - Toward a Radical Solidarity with Victor Narro Published by Hard Ball Press
"The work for social justice is a calling. It is about finding the goodness in yourself and in others as we move forward together...
Standing Up: Tales of Struggle with Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller Published by Hard Ball Press
As they stand up, slow down, form unions, leave an abusive relationship or just stir up good trouble, the characters in this...
The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
“So the idea was to recruit basically a third black miners, a third immigrant, and a third native white and cramp them all together and...
Dylan James Brock Author of Roosevelt, Michigan - EMLab Artist Profiles
“The world works better when you try to understand first and then be understood. What I found throughout this book was that if I reduced...
The Case For A New Deal 3.0 - David Riemer Author of Putting Government In Its Place
David Riemer is author of Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0. He is also the author of The Prisoners of...
Book Review: Why The New Deal Matters with author Dr. Eric Rauchway
“Roosevelt came into office in 1933...unemployment is getting up in the direction of 25%...so you have basically every element of the...
New Deal Descendant Dr. June Hopkins talks about Harry Hopkins' WPA, & the Need for a Job Guarantee
“The private sector will never be able to absorb every worker who wants a job, good times or bad times, it'll never happen. So my theory...
Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 & Director of East Side Freedom
Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 and Co-Executive Director of East Side Freedom Library Welcome to...
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