In the summer of 2001, I worked as a front desk clerk—we were called guest service agents—at the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone National Park. The work was hard. We spent long hours on our feet,…
The Year of the Strike
[Note: This story is from my book, In and Out of the Working Class. Counterpunch was kind enough to post it recently.] With a slight shrug of his shoulders, he began to move toward the…
Us Versus Them: Laboring in the Academic Factory
[Note: This was first published in Monthly Review in January 2000. It was based upon a talk I gave to teachers at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York. Noted scholar of education, Henry Giroux,…