Book Bingo NW 2023: Workers' Rights
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Workers' Rights. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. (Created May 2023)
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Dirty Work
An urgent report from the front lines of ‘dirty work’ -- the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. (Publisher)
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Laziness Does Not Exist
“Laziness Does Not Exist” explores the psychological underpinnings of the “laziness lie”, including its origins from the Puritans and how it has continued to proliferate as digital work tools have blurred the boundaries between work and life. Using in-depth research, Price explains that people today do far more work than nearly any other humans in history yet most of us often still feel we are not doing enough. (Publisher)
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What We Build With Power
A historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists. What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to disrupt the tech industry and move toward a more economically inclusive and equitable workforce. (Publisher)
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Revolting Prostitutes
Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex workers rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. (Publisher)
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There's No Such Thing as An Easy Job
Tsumura’s sharp English-language debut follows a woman’s search for fulfillment in an all-consuming late-capitalist Japan. (Publisher)
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The Cold Millions
With an expansive cast that includes anti-capitalist firebrands, menacing tycoons, a coalition of multifaceted, multiethnic itinerant workers and sundry ‘killers, detectives and anarchists’, this book captures the audacity, promise, ugliness and beauty of American life. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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Neon Girls
Galvanizing and urgent... a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle. (NPR)
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