There are two notable, large strikes going on in the education sector at the moment, one in West Virginia where public K-12 teachers are on a wildcat strike that is now entering its second week, and one in Britian, where university faculty represented through the University and College Union (UCU) have been on strike for … Continue reading Faculty strikes
Tag: Labor
The political economy of sports
The end of the semester and a couple of major life changes sit just on my horizon, so my writing on this blog has slowed considerably. But I do want to write something about the intersection of politics and sports, as I have been thinking a lot about this topic over the last several weeks … Continue reading The political economy of sports
The coal miner’s helmet
This is a brief post, picking up on a theme I discussed a few posts ago and which is increasingly at the center of my research focus, though in a slightly different way in this example. I have been doing, as I've noted, research on the embodied knowledge of labor and workers in the workplace, … Continue reading The coal miner’s helmet
The body and the workplace
I had initially planned to write something about Charlottesville for my next post, but after reading so much the last two weeks about neo-Nazis and the far right and debates over free speech protections and Confederate monuments and the jagged edges of political debate about public space in the US right now, I decided I … Continue reading The body and the workplace
Jamey Essex 