Submitted by timsheard on June 20, 2010 - 8:35am. Description: CONTEMPORARY WORKER WRITERS
The UALE Worker-Writers Group was formed to help schools, trade unions and grass roots organizations connect with contemporary working class writers. By providing a list of authors with their locale and email address, we make it easier for organizations to invite writers to their facility. Writers can provide readings, workshops and classes that help working class men and women develop their writing and storytelling skills.
All are invited to submit the names of writers. Be sure to include contact information and location.
AUTHOR, TITLES, GENRE, REVIEW EXCERPTS, AUTHOR LOCALE
AND EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN AVAILABLE.
Jimmy Santiago Baca (editor)
The Heat: Steelworker Lives & Legends, a collection of worker writing
nonfiction
Dean Bakopoulos
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
2005
Christopher Barzak
One for Sorrow
2007
Youngstown, OH
cmbarzak@ysu.edu
William O. Boggs
The Man Who Never Comes Back; Swimming in Clear Water; Eddie Johnson's American Dream
Slippery Rock, PA, .
wboggs@copper.net
Carlos Bolusan
America is in the Heart
1943
Kate Braid
Covering Rough Ground,
poetry
Carpenter/Teacher/Writer
braidk@telus.net
Ernie Brill
I Looked Over Jordan, and other Stories
1980
ebrill@hotmail.com
Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain
Break Time
Poetry
Jim Daniels
Punching Out;
Digger's Blues
Letters to America
Show and Tell
Detroit Tales
Poetry; Short Story
Pittsburgh, PA
jd6s@andrew.cmu.edu
Kathleen DeGrave
Company Woman
1995
Charles Denby
Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, 1989
Memoir
Sue Doro
Sugar String
Blue-Collar Goodbyes
Poetry;
Memoir
California
tradesis@aol.com
Jessica Dulong
My River Chronicles
Memoir
Brooklyn
jessica@jessicadulong.com
Richard D. Egeland
Illegitimati Non Carborundum ("Don't Let the Bastards Get you Down)
Poetry
Chicago
Richardegeland@hotmail.com
Susan Eisenberg
We'll Call You If We Need You:
Experiences of Women Working Construction, 1999,
Oral History;
Interviews with women in the trades. "Eye-opening and often disturbing, this is a fine study on the limits of affirmative action that can be appreciated by lay readers and scholars alike." (LJ)
susaneisenberg@verizon.net
Susan Eisenberg
Pioneering: Poems From the Construction Site;
It's a Good Thing I'm Not Macho,
Poetry
"In this slim book we find, among other startling images, an electrocuted rat, an ominous male working partner with a knife, a falling body about to strike marble steps and a woman's hand cut off by a saw." NYTimes
Suzanne Gordon
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing up For Themselves, Their Patients and Their Profession
Oral History
Arlington, Ma.
www.suzannegordon.com
Archie Green, ed.
Calf's Head and Union Tale
1996
Lola Hernandez
Autopsy of an Engine and
Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant"
Memoir
Detroit
lolahern@comcast.net
Paul Krehbiel
Shades of Justice
Memoir
Recalls his anti-war organizing and other adventures.
Southern California
Jane LaTour
Sisters In The Brotherhood: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
Oral History
"Injects the suspense of a thriller into a portrait of women breaking into blue-collar jobs . . . LaTour shatters tradeswomen's invisibility by providing in-depth portraits of the vast range of women who challenged exclusionary practices."
--Working USA
New York City
JLatour@dc37.net
Molly Martin (editor)
Hard-Hatted Women
Poetry
molly@tradeswomen.org
Sandra Martz (editor)
If I Had A Hammer, Women's Work
oral history
Ken Meisel, Detroit
Beautiful Rust
poetry
Adam David Miller
Ticket To Exile;
The Sky is the Page
Heyday Bks, 2007
14.95
Memoir
Poetry, Memoir
"Complete in its portrait of a struggling Southern family and undeniably powerful in its portrayal of racial injustice, Miller captures a time and a place with resonance, honesty and wisdom." (PW)
adam@adamdavidmillerpoet.com
Francine Moccio
Live Wire
moccio01@aol.com
Eugene Nelson
Break Their Haughty Power
Creative nonfiction
1992
It's a fictionalized biography of Joe Murphy and the IWW, beginning when Murphy runs away from home in Springfield Missouri at age 13 to join the IWW as a harvest hand in Kansas.
Ism Press 1992
Linda Niemann,
Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (Railroads Past and Present)
Literary & Photo History
"Niemann's tales of exhaustion, alcoholism, homelessness, and corporate blundering present a revelatory account of railroading life. Photographer Joel Jensen realizes Niemann's vision of the working West with images of cowboy bars, blue motels, and railroaders working in electrical storms, white-outs, and desert heat waves....an honest, gritty, and striking collaboration."
Marietta, GA
lniemann@kennesaw.edu
Mark Nowak
Shut Up, Shut Down; Coal Mountain Elementary
poetry
Tawni O'Dell
Back Roads, 2004
Coal Run, 2005
Fragile Beasts, 2010
Helen Petrobenko
Hey Waitress and other Stories,
1989
Letters to Maggie 1998
Vancouver, BC
Cheri Register
Packinghouse Daughter
Marianne Robinson
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire,
Timothy Sheard
This Won't Hurt A Bit; Some Cuts Never Heal, A Race Against Death, Slim To None
Mysteries
"His intimate view of Lenny's world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a workingman's perspective. " 'NYTIMES.
Brooklyn, NY
timsheard@optonline.net
David Shevin, Larry Smith (editors)
Getting By, Stories of Working Lives;
A Red Shadow of Steel Mills: Photos and Poems
Oral history; poems & photos
"This collection (Getting BY) takes an unfiltered look at what most American citizens are: working people...."b Marietta TIMES
Barbara Sjoholm (editor)
Steady As she Goes, Women's Adventures at Sea
oral history
"Running through all of the selections are threads of quiet courage, an often stunning originality, self-confidence, presence of mind, and a degree of vitality that should appeal strongly to teenage readers."
Larry Smith
Milldust and Roses
Poetry/History
"It is Smith's simple directness, human scale, and respect for reality that makes Milldust and Roses such a sweet, kind, modest, touching, and unassuming book..." David Budbill .
Larry Smith
Beyond Rust
Novella, Short Stories, essays
Good, strong language, and a big heart shining through." Sy Safransky
Candacy Taylor
Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
Oral History
"...this unique perspective is much like the professional diner waitress-difficult to pigeonhole, impossible to ignore." Publishers Weekly
California
Ross Thomas
The Porkchoppers
Fiction
Two bitter union bosses conduct a nationwide duel over billions of dollars in an expose of political maneuvering...characters include adulterers, lackeys, and special interest groups.
Tom Wayman (editor)
Going For Coffee
poetry anthology
Harbour Publishing
Mary Weems , Larry Smith (editors)
Working Hard For the Money
anthology
Betty Wilson
Mr. Jefferson's Piano and Other Harlem Stories)
creative nonfiction
New York City
wilsonbluez@aol.com
Michael Zadoorian
The Los Tiki Palaces of Detroit, 2009
CONTEMPORARY WORKER WRITERS
The UALE Worker-Writers Group was formed to help schools, trade unions and grass roots organizations connect with contemporary working class writers. By providing a list of authors with their locale and email address, we make it easier for organizations to invite writers to their facility. Writers can provide readings, workshops and classes that help working class men and women develop their writing and storytelling skills.
All are invited to submit the names of writers. Be sure to include contact information and location.
AUTHOR, TITLES, GENRE, REVIEW EXCERPTS, AUTHOR LOCALE
AND EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN AVAILABLE.
Jimmy Santiago Baca (editor)
The Heat: Steelworker Lives & Legends, a collection of worker writing
nonfiction
Dean Bakopoulos
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
2005
Christopher Barzak
One for Sorrow
2007
Youngstown, OH
cmbarzak@ysu.edu
William O. Boggs
The Man Who Never Comes Back; Swimming in Clear Water; Eddie Johnson's American Dream
Slippery Rock, PA, .
wboggs@copper.net
Carlos Bolusan
America is in the Heart
1943
Kate Braid
Covering Rough Ground,
poetry
Carpenter/Teacher/Writer
braidk@telus.net
Ernie Brill
I Looked Over Jordan, and other Stories
1980
ebrill@hotmail.com
Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain
Break Time
Poetry
Jim Daniels
Punching Out;
Digger's Blues
Letters to America
Show and Tell
Detroit Tales
Poetry; Short Story
Pittsburgh, PA
jd6s@andrew.cmu.edu
Kathleen DeGrave
Company Woman
1995
Charles Denby
Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, 1989
Memoir
Sue Doro
Sugar String
Blue-Collar Goodbyes
Poetry;
Memoir
California
tradesis@aol.com
Jessica Dulong
My River Chronicles
Memoir
Brooklyn
jessica@jessicadulong.com
Richard D. Egeland
Illegitimati Non Carborundum ("Don't Let the Bastards Get you Down)
Poetry
Chicago
Richardegeland@hotmail.com
Susan Eisenberg
We'll Call You If We Need You:
Experiences of Women Working Construction, 1999,
Oral History;
Interviews with women in the trades. "Eye-opening and often disturbing, this is a fine study on the limits of affirmative action that can be appreciated by lay readers and scholars alike." (LJ)
susaneisenberg@verizon.net
Susan Eisenberg
Pioneering: Poems From the Construction Site;
It's a Good Thing I'm Not Macho,
Poetry
"In this slim book we find, among other startling images, an electrocuted rat, an ominous male working partner with a knife, a falling body about to strike marble steps and a woman's hand cut off by a saw." NYTimes
Suzanne Gordon
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing up For Themselves, Their Patients and Their Profession
Oral History
Arlington, Ma.
www.suzannegordon.com
Archie Green, ed.
Calf's Head and Union Tale
1996
Lola Hernandez
Autopsy of an Engine and
Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant"
Memoir
Detroit
lolahern@comcast.net
Paul Krehbiel
Shades of Justice
Memoir
Recalls his anti-war organizing and other adventures.
Southern California
Jane LaTour
Sisters In The Brotherhood: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
Oral History
"Injects the suspense of a thriller into a portrait of women breaking into blue-collar jobs . . . LaTour shatters tradeswomen's invisibility by providing in-depth portraits of the vast range of women who challenged exclusionary practices."
--Working USA
New York City
JLatour@dc37.net
Molly Martin (editor)
Hard-Hatted Women
Poetry
molly@tradeswomen.org
Sandra Martz (editor)
If I Had A Hammer, Women's Work
oral history
Ken Meisel, Detroit
Beautiful Rust
poetry
Adam David Miller
Ticket To Exile;
The Sky is the Page
Heyday Bks, 2007
14.95
Memoir
Poetry, Memoir
"Complete in its portrait of a struggling Southern family and undeniably powerful in its portrayal of racial injustice, Miller captures a time and a place with resonance, honesty and wisdom." (PW)
adam@adamdavidmillerpoet.com
Francine Moccio
Live Wire
moccio01@aol.com
Eugene Nelson
Break Their Haughty Power
Creative nonfiction
1992
It's a fictionalized biography of Joe Murphy and the IWW, beginning when Murphy runs away from home in Springfield Missouri at age 13 to join the IWW as a harvest hand in Kansas.
Ism Press 1992
Linda Niemann,
Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (Railroads Past and Present)
Literary & Photo History
"Niemann's tales of exhaustion, alcoholism, homelessness, and corporate blundering present a revelatory account of railroading life. Photographer Joel Jensen realizes Niemann's vision of the working West with images of cowboy bars, blue motels, and railroaders working in electrical storms, white-outs, and desert heat waves....an honest, gritty, and striking collaboration."
Marietta, GA
lniemann@kennesaw.edu
Mark Nowak
Shut Up, Shut Down; Coal Mountain Elementary
poetry
Tawni O'Dell
Back Roads, 2004
Coal Run, 2005
Fragile Beasts, 2010
Helen Petrobenko
Hey Waitress and other Stories,
1989
Letters to Maggie 1998
Vancouver, BC
Cheri Register
Packinghouse Daughter
Marianne Robinson
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire,
Timothy Sheard
This Won't Hurt A Bit; Some Cuts Never Heal, A Race Against Death, Slim To None
Mysteries
"His intimate view of Lenny's world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a workingman's perspective. " 'NYTIMES.
Brooklyn, NY
timsheard@optonline.net
David Shevin, Larry Smith (editors)
Getting By, Stories of Working Lives;
A Red Shadow of Steel Mills: Photos and Poems
Oral history; poems & photos
"This collection (Getting BY) takes an unfiltered look at what most American citizens are: working people...."b Marietta TIMES
Barbara Sjoholm (editor)
Steady As she Goes, Women's Adventures at Sea
oral history
"Running through all of the selections are threads of quiet courage, an often stunning originality, self-confidence, presence of mind, and a degree of vitality that should appeal strongly to teenage readers."
Larry Smith
Milldust and Roses
Poetry/History
"It is Smith's simple directness, human scale, and respect for reality that makes Milldust and Roses such a sweet, kind, modest, touching, and unassuming book..." David Budbill .
Larry Smith
Beyond Rust
Novella, Short Stories, essays
Good, strong language, and a big heart shining through." Sy Safransky
Candacy Taylor
Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
Oral History
"...this unique perspective is much like the professional diner waitress-difficult to pigeonhole, impossible to ignore." Publishers Weekly
California
Ross Thomas
The Porkchoppers
Fiction
Two bitter union bosses conduct a nationwide duel over billions of dollars in an expose of political maneuvering...characters include adulterers, lackeys, and special interest groups.
Tom Wayman (editor)
Going For Coffee
poetry anthology
Harbour Publishing
Mary Weems , Larry Smith (editors)
Working Hard For the Money
anthology
Betty Wilson
Mr. Jefferson's Piano and Other Harlem Stories)
creative nonfiction
New York City
wilsonbluez@aol.com
Michael Zadoorian
The Los Tiki Palaces of Detroit, 2009
Submitted by epmuldoon on April 13, 2010 - 12:57pm.
Submitted by epmuldoon on April 12, 2010 - 11:32am. Description: This is the facilitator guide for a labor history workshop. This is the facilitator guide for a labor history workshop.
Submitted by Tess Ewing on April 22, 2009 - 1:20pm. Description: In this Op-ed piece, Fordham U law professor Jennifer Gordon argues for the concept of "transnational labor citizenship". For a more detailed discussion of the topic, download her article from the University of Southern CA Law Review here. In this Op-ed piece, Fordham U law professor Jennifer Gordon argues for the concept of "transnational labor citizenship". For a more detailed discussion of the topic, download her article from the University of Southern CA Law Review here.
Submitted by Tess Ewing on April 22, 2009 - 1:16pm. Description: This article was originally published in New Labor Forum in spring 2008, as part of a debate on open borders. This article was originally published in New Labor Forum in spring 2008, as part of a debate on open borders.
Description: 8-contact hour class (two 4-hour sessions at least a week apart) with a small section on Immigration comparing today's ethnic stereotypes to the stereotypes of the Irish immigrants one about 150 years ago. Also used to demonstrate employer attempts to "divide and conquer" and to reinforce the importance of worker solidarity at home and abroad.
Target audience: white male native-born union members
from John Kretzschmar 8-contact hour class (two 4-hour sessions at least a week apart) with a small section on Immigration comparing today's ethnic stereotypes to the stereotypes of the Irish immigrants one about 150 years ago. Also used to demonstrate employer attempts to "divide and conquer" and to reinforce the importance of worker solidarity at home and abroad.
Target audience: white male native-born union members
from John Kretzschmar
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