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Mostly pretty good but wordy novel about a union member songwriter executed for a SLC murder at a store. He became a martyr much like John Brown in the Civil War. He said: “Don‘t mourn, organize!” The IWW were an interesting group in early 20th century US history

Wow, this book was incredible (and incredibly distressing). I was considering it a work of journalism (and it is) the whole way through. Only as I was finishing did I learn Goldstone has a PhD in anthropology, and it SHOWS. The depth of the profiles he includes was super impressive, as were the connections he made throughout to the policy failures and social issues that created and sustain our terrible housing crisis.

This top paragraph is a good summary of Salt Lake City about the half way point of this novel about the unionist songwriter, Joe Hill.

The slight discomfort I feel in picking up this book is an indicator that I need to read this book, or at least if not this book, then to learn more about the issues surrounding sex work from somebody who has done it, and so whose views are informed by experience as well as moral ideology, ethics and politics. But, it is, in fact, this book I'll be reading 😏📘

Started another historical fiction about a labor leader blamed for a murder and executed in Utah in 1915

Random book from our personal library.

This is one of those books I had to add to our collection in solidarity with fellow workers, but also because it was about the English, was published by Penguin Classics, and, if I'm honest, because it was inexpensive.

This searing book looks at 5 families in Atlanta who, despite working hard and making educational efforts, find themselves homeless due to lack of housing and policies designed to have them fail. It‘s a damning indictment of how we run our country in the US. We should be appalled and I truly wish every republican would read this book with an open mind to see what happens. Dion Graham reading it makes it marginally easier to swallow.

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This was full of grit, woe, and exploitation as the book depicts the rigged politics that keep corporations in power at the moment expense of the low working class, in this case, immigrants who came to the US for the American dream just find themselves covered in dirt and coal dust like much of their dreams.

It's crazy how although this book was originally written in 1917, a lot of it still pertains today.
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Excellent journalism following five families in Atlanta and their quest to find a place to rent, food and childcare and stay on top of their bills. There is very little correlation between how hard one works with how much one gets paid. This book does a fantastic job of showing the system- the heroes and villains- and explains how expensive it is to be the working poor.