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 ne

Strike When the Needle is Hot Book Release for Labor Organizers. Take a watch and a listen!

Take a listen to the Library Punk Pod as cafe workers and militants talk about "class composition in the cafe sector."

After a year of efforts our workers’ inquiry “Class Composition in the Cafe Sector: What do cafe workers in the United States think and do while at work?” has been published by our comrades at Notes from Below in the UK.

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...

Blue Bottle Workers Launch Independent Union. Read Five Questions with an Organizer.

Troublemaking Goes International... a review of Troublemaking by Jamie Woodcock and Lydia Hughes of Notes from Below.

Read my latest article "Labor Education for All Workers" over at New Politics!

A new edition of Real World Labor is out now with Dollars & Sense magazine and Kevin Van Meter is proud to be one of the editors!

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.

Dollars and Sense Magazine has just released "Management Rights, Workers Wronged" by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter online.

New edition of Real World Labor to be published by Dollars & Sense.

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

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

A steward’s work is never done. And it’s often challenging work, especially when representing difficult members.

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

Take a read of "Advice to new labor organizers" in The Chief by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter.

Read of "Management Rights, Workers Wronged" by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter in the new issue of Dollars and Sense.