Reading Struggles

“Amplifying forms of informal and formal organizing the workplace, amplifying and circulating struggles and informal practices of time theft or insubordination, all those things can only be understood from the perspective of the workers themselves.” For my second appearance on the Library Punk Podcast, I join Justin and Jay to chat about The American Worker pamphlet, Grace Lee Boggs and Phil Singer, Karl Marx and CLR James, workers’ inquiry and organizing in the US, and neig

Offering workshops and public talks on workers' inquiry, The American Worker pamphlet, CLR James, and the contemporary labor movement in the US this November to be held in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Belfast. Take a read of our workers' inquiry on the cafe sector in the United States published by Notes from Below and my "Searching for the American Worker" available online at New Politics. EVENTS SCHEDULE London: Saturday, November 8 at 10:00 as part of the Historical Mate

Beginning with the 1947 publication of The American Worker pamphlet a new form of “proletarian literature” emerged from the automotive factories and corners of Marxian movements in the United States. The pamphlet begins by providing intimate, all-encompassing, and actual details about the functioning, power relationships, and autonomous nature of workers’ struggles in an auto factory—from the workers’ perspective. In this opening episode of the new season of All Hail To The P

Join me for two talks in London and Dublin this November 2024.

How Can First-Person Narratives of Work and Workers’ Inquiry Aid Organizing? Join us Friday, June 21st from 6:00-8:00PM in Rochester, NY for a workshop on workers' inquiry. Free and all are welcome. First-person narratives and workers’ inquiries are strategic interventions to grasp power in the workplace, informal work groups and divisions within the workforce, forms of mutual aid and informal organization, “organic” leadership, and can aid organizing efforts. In this works

Kevin Van Meter recently joined COVER for a seminar on The American Worker.

New Politics has just released "Searching for The American Worker" by Kevin Van Meter online for the reading public.

Collected works of author, labor educator, and union organizer Kevin Van Meter.

Kevin joins the Years of Lead Pod to talk about circulating struggles and The American Worker.

"Searching for The American Worker" will appear this summer.

A workshop on first-person narratives and workers' inquiry. Offered Spring 2023 and thereafter.

American Worker is a project to document the history of workers' inquiry and first-person narratives written by workers about their working lives in the United States between the publication of The American Worker pamphlet in 1947 and the present. Season 1: Search for The American Worker: will be a search for the identity of one of its authors; while exploring politics of authorship and voice, complexity of identity and power, neighboring pamphlets (on youth, housework, and