Book Talks

Oct 12, 20223 min read

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...

Oct 2, 20222 min read

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...

Jul 18, 20221 min read

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

Jul 11, 20223 min read

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

May 30, 20224 min read

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...

May 25, 20222 min read

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.

May 21, 20221 min read

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

Apr 20, 20222 min read

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...

Mar 31, 20222 min read

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...

Mar 24, 20222 min read

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...

Mar 15, 20223 min read

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...

Aug 18, 20212 min read

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...

Jun 13, 20212 min read

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...

May 19, 20211 min read

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...

Apr 13, 20212 min read

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...

Mar 30, 20212 min read

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...

Feb 2, 20211 min read

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...