The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward
The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward

Author: Sistah Gurl

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-08-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781081883898

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BONUS MATERIAL! Follow the wryly-told embattled adventures of a socially isolated, non-conforming union leader as she battles toxic management and co-worker idiocy in a well-meaning Social Services office. Chock-full of insights, foul language and The Five Stages of Grief, The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward is relatable to any and everyone who has ever lived, died and gone to hell in their job, work environment or both. Rated M for Misfit A true confessional of bad behavior, lackadaisical attitudes on the part of upper management, and more hoops to jump through th[a]n a school playground, The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward is a great piece of on-the-spot reporting of a seemingly impossible situation. Clearly there was alot going on that defied any sort of understanding. I certainly can't imagine what it was like in the moment! While I did notice some errors throughout the piece, they lent an extra bit of authentic-ness, having likely been written in the moment or soon after events occured. All in all an interesting mini-memoir! -D. Cuthbert, Library Thing CONTENTS: 1. Perceived Power Dynamics 101: 2. Cast of Characters: Management 3. Weingarten Rights 4. Cast of Characters: Union 5. I, as Union Steward 6. Bcc: Notes on an Office Culture 7. Tips and Tricks of a Black Female Union Member & Steward 8. The Aggrieved 9. Grievance #1: How I'm Insubordinate When You're Unprofessional? 10. Interlude: A Gender Discrimination "Investigation" 11. Interlude #2: Now, Union Steward Training ** Grievance Report ** 12. Grievance #2: Send in the Clowns 13. Quittin Time BONUS MATERIAL: Co-workers

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays

Author: Paul Kingsnorth

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1555979726

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A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story
Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story

Author: Jonathan LaPoma

Publisher: Almendro Arts

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0998840378

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-Winner of 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes (Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category) -Bronze medal winner of 2016 FAPA President's Awards (Adult eBook category) -Recommended by Kirkus Reviews Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story follows a group of recent college graduates who struggle with feelings of alienation and their addictions as they try to survive a year of teaching at two dysfunctional Miami public schools. A poetic and insightful coming-of-age novel, Developing Minds is centered on 24-year-old Luke Entelechy, an aspiring writer who sees his creative output suffer when he begins teaching at one of Miami's most challenging middle schools. As the year progresses, however, Luke begins to relate to the neglect and abuse his students suffer, and is faced with a "haunting" decision: continue to let his dark past destroy him, or rise above the struggle to realize his potential as an artist and a "real" human being. Equal parts disturbing and humorous, Developing Minds offers a brutally honest look at the American public school system and the extreme measures many teachers take to cope with working in it. *Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story is the fourth book in a loosely-linked series, with Hammond, The Summer of Crud, and Understanding the Alacrán as books one-three, and The Soul City Salvation as book five. Each novel can be read independently of the others.

Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

Author: Jane McAlevey

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1781683158

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This “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned—and notorious—militant union organizer (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed) In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth century, and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. What happened? Jane McAlevey is famous—and notorious—in the American labor movement as the hard-charging organizer who racked up a string of victories at a time when union leaders said winning wasn’t possible. Then she was bounced from the movement, a victim of the high-level internecine warfare that has torn apart organized labor. In this engrossing and funny narrative—that reflects the personality of its charismatic, wisecracking author—McAlevey tells the story of a number of dramatic organizing and contract victories, and the unconventional strategies that helped achieve them. Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) argues that labor can be revived, but only if the movement acknowledges its mistakes and fully commits to deep organizing, participatory education, militancy, and an approach to workers and their communities that more resembles the campaigns of the 1930s—in short, social movement unionism that involves raising workers’ expectations (while raising hell).

The Good Ally
The Good Ally

Author: Nova Reid

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-09-16

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0008439508

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‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready? Let’s get started, we have work to do.’