5LL #49 - Silvia Federici, Prison Labor, Chinatown, Logic, Spotify

Silvia Federici in Conversation with Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor, The Believer
Part of a group of feminist thinkers who have reinvented and expanded Marxism, Federici has helped put women’s work, long banished to the margins of anti-capitalist analysis, at the center.
Some Reflections on Prison Labor
Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore, The Brooklyn Rail
Ultimately, we need to view work and worker activity inside prisons through a broader lens.
How Chinese American Women Changed U.S. Labor History
Huiying B. Chan, Open City
Women workers and organizers remember staging the massive 1982 Garment Strike in Chinatown
Logic and the Left
Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs
Exposing the hollow sophistry of conservatives and claiming logic for the left…
Big Mood Machine
Liz Pelly, The Baffler
Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
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