By Meaghan WinterJewish CurrentsDecember 2nd, 2019 Discussed in this essay: Without Apology: The Struggle for Abortion Now, by Jenny Brown.…
Labor Studies
Bosses, Birth Rates, and the Battle over U.S. Immigration Policy
U.S.-born women workers have effectively gone on a birth strike, and that’s freaking out an establishment fighting with itself over…
Women on the Verge: Birth Strike in The Baffler
Two recent books on the fight for reproductive rights By Emily JanakiramThe BafflerJanuary 6th, 2019 Recently, Colleen McNicholas, an obstetrician-gynecologist…
Living and Dying on the Factory Floor— An Angry Workers World Review
Angry Workers WorldNovember 26th, 2019 This book is a thoughtful and easy-to-read account of the author’s experiences in various industrial…
In defence of working class existence as choice—
Libcom.orgDecember 10th, 2019 We read and reviewed David Ranney’s “Living and dying on the factory floor”, which was about his…
Rebel Voices in Free Voices
By Sharon PresleyFree VoicesWinter 2012/2013 The preface by Daniel Gross says oof this book: “You hold in your hands the…
Living and dying on the factory floor: Class and race at work
By Mark GruenbergPeople’s WorldOctober 17th, 2019 WASHINGTON—There can be a big gap between the halls of academia—and scholars’ studies about…
No More Compromise on Abortion: An Interview with Jenny Brown
By Liza FeatherstoneJacobin Jenny Brown’s new book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now, the latest in the Jacobin Series published by…
Letters to the Editor: Jenny Brown Responds to “Anti-Labor Politics” in LARB
By Meredith Goldsmith, Anna Kryczka, Catherine LiuLos Angeles Review of Books Jenny Brown Responds to Meredith Goldsmith, Anna Kryczka, and…
Fetal Positions: Birth Strike in Bookforum
By Jordan LarsonBookforumSeptember-November 2019 As the earth melts, societies age, and economies slow, a narrative of humanity’s inevitable decline has…