Workers Reading Book Club
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LABOR UNION BOOK CLUB💪📚 Discussing nonfiction & fiction books about labor history, unions, & employment!
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quote dump part 2 from our January 2025 book
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
February 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
quote dump part 2 from our January 2025 book
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
quote dump part 1 from our January 2025 book
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
February 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
quote dump part 1 from our January 2025 book
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, WR Book Club.
FEB 2025 BOOK PICK
Hello literary laborers & happy February! We are so excited to read this for the first time along side yall ☺️📚
📖Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club
#wrbc #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler#WorkersReadingBookClub #LaborUnionBookClub
Hello literary laborers & happy February! We are so excited to read this for the first time along side yall ☺️📚
📖Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club
#wrbc #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler#WorkersReadingBookClub #LaborUnionBookClub
February 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
FEB 2025 BOOK PICK
Hello literary laborers & happy February! We are so excited to read this for the first time along side yall ☺️📚
📖Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club
#wrbc #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler#WorkersReadingBookClub #LaborUnionBookClub
Hello literary laborers & happy February! We are so excited to read this for the first time along side yall ☺️📚
📖Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club
#wrbc #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler#WorkersReadingBookClub #LaborUnionBookClub
📚The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
3 industrial factory employees focus on their specific & sort of strange jobs while the factory slowly expands, blurring the lines between factory & outside world. Told in alternating 1st person narratives. Strange creatures appear! (I haven’t read this yet)
(8/9)
3 industrial factory employees focus on their specific & sort of strange jobs while the factory slowly expands, blurring the lines between factory & outside world. Told in alternating 1st person narratives. Strange creatures appear! (I haven’t read this yet)
(8/9)
January 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
📚The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
3 industrial factory employees focus on their specific & sort of strange jobs while the factory slowly expands, blurring the lines between factory & outside world. Told in alternating 1st person narratives. Strange creatures appear! (I haven’t read this yet)
(8/9)
3 industrial factory employees focus on their specific & sort of strange jobs while the factory slowly expands, blurring the lines between factory & outside world. Told in alternating 1st person narratives. Strange creatures appear! (I haven’t read this yet)
(8/9)
📚The Employees by Olga Ravn
Set in the near future, this book follows the human and humanoid crew of a space ship that took on strange objects from another planet through witness statements compiled by a workplace commission. (I haven’t read this yet)
(7/9)
Set in the near future, this book follows the human and humanoid crew of a space ship that took on strange objects from another planet through witness statements compiled by a workplace commission. (I haven’t read this yet)
(7/9)
January 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
📚The Employees by Olga Ravn
Set in the near future, this book follows the human and humanoid crew of a space ship that took on strange objects from another planet through witness statements compiled by a workplace commission. (I haven’t read this yet)
(7/9)
Set in the near future, this book follows the human and humanoid crew of a space ship that took on strange objects from another planet through witness statements compiled by a workplace commission. (I haven’t read this yet)
(7/9)
📚Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead volume 1 by Haro Aso
Akira had a soul crushing job, but his life turns around when the zombie apocalypse begins, and he no longer has to go into the office. (This would be our first manga! I read this right after leaving my corporate job so l’m a fan)
(6/?)
Akira had a soul crushing job, but his life turns around when the zombie apocalypse begins, and he no longer has to go into the office. (This would be our first manga! I read this right after leaving my corporate job so l’m a fan)
(6/?)
January 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📚Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead volume 1 by Haro Aso
Akira had a soul crushing job, but his life turns around when the zombie apocalypse begins, and he no longer has to go into the office. (This would be our first manga! I read this right after leaving my corporate job so l’m a fan)
(6/?)
Akira had a soul crushing job, but his life turns around when the zombie apocalypse begins, and he no longer has to go into the office. (This would be our first manga! I read this right after leaving my corporate job so l’m a fan)
(6/?)
When Gerard’s consciousness gets uploaded to his company’s Slack chat, his coworkers assume he just wants to work from home. His productivity has skyrocketed so his boss doesn’t mind, despite Gerard’s attempts to find help. Written entirely in the format of slack chats!
(5/?)
(5/?)
January 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
When Gerard’s consciousness gets uploaded to his company’s Slack chat, his coworkers assume he just wants to work from home. His productivity has skyrocketed so his boss doesn’t mind, despite Gerard’s attempts to find help. Written entirely in the format of slack chats!
(5/?)
(5/?)
In one of the last safe neighborhoods of LA in the future, hyperempathetic Lauren loses her family and home to a fire and must head out into the dangerous world and venture north in search of safety with a group of survivors, thinking of revolutionary ways to save mankind.
(3/?)
(3/?)
January 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In one of the last safe neighborhoods of LA in the future, hyperempathetic Lauren loses her family and home to a fire and must head out into the dangerous world and venture north in search of safety with a group of survivors, thinking of revolutionary ways to save mankind.
(3/?)
(3/?)
Looking toward February 2025... I think it’s time for another fiction book! I’d like to pitch a few, and am open to suggestions for more! Please check out these books below/read some reviews/ let me know what you think! Also feel free to comment others you’d like to read :)
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January 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Looking toward February 2025... I think it’s time for another fiction book! I’d like to pitch a few, and am open to suggestions for more! Please check out these books below/read some reviews/ let me know what you think! Also feel free to comment others you’d like to read :)
(1/?)
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A quote from the Introduction of this month’s book selection! Lots of interesting exploration of cultural standards, and how they are influenced by racism, sexism, religion, wealth, and power. How has your reading been going?
(1/2)
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January 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A quote from the Introduction of this month’s book selection! Lots of interesting exploration of cultural standards, and how they are influenced by racism, sexism, religion, wealth, and power. How has your reading been going?
(1/2)
(1/2)
“As the first chapter of this book describes, the political strategy of divide, demonize, and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States—since the days of slavery—to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another […]” (1/2)
January 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“As the first chapter of this book describes, the political strategy of divide, demonize, and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States—since the days of slavery—to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another […]” (1/2)
“Every system of injustice depends on the silence, paralysis, confusion, and cooperation of those it seeks to eliminate or control.”
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.
January 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Every system of injustice depends on the silence, paralysis, confusion, and cooperation of those it seeks to eliminate or control.”
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.
JANUARY 2025🎉 new year, new book club selection!
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club. (1/3)
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club. (1/3)
January 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
JANUARY 2025🎉 new year, new book club selection!
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club. (1/3)
📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club. (1/3)