5LL #223 - 2020, Mike Davis, Qatar, Caregivers, Joe Hill

States of Incarceration
Tobi Haslett, Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan, The Brooklyn Rail
The strength of the George Floyd Rebellion was that for a brief moment it made the question of “reform or revolution” less abstract and more concrete.
Mike Davis’s Specificities
Gabriel Winant, n+1
Repetitious and reductive appeals to the universal never satisfied him.
The Politics of “Unskilled” Labor in Qatar
Natasha Iskander and Arang Keshavarzian, MERIP
Workers described as unskilled have their freedom denied, their bodies controlled, their desires and ambitions for dignity suppressed—whether in an Amazon fulfillment center, a meatpacking plant or an immigrant detention facility.
The Dramatic Consequences of Excluding Homecare Workers from Labor Rights
Jamie K. McCallum, Literary Hub
Jamie K. McCallum considers the legacy of terrible working conditions in the home healthcare industry.
Joe Hill Was Killed for Singing Labor’s Song
Cal Winslow, Jacobin
One hundred seven years ago today, the labor troubadour Joe Hill was executed by a Utah firing squad for a crime he almost certainly didn’t commit. His real crime: singing and agitating on behalf of the working class.
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