I can’t wait to read the other contributions! Who doesn’t like tv and labor?

We got back our first peer reviews of the "SLDP" manuscript. Utterly delighted how much the readers enjoyed it.

More to come!

Up first is the Arts & Media essay "The Cost of Compliance" by @rachaelvm454.bsky.social which analyzes Apple TV+’s Severance as a critique of how corporate culture strip workers of autonomy and identity while masking exploitation behind the language of purpose and growth. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Episode 84: Shaun Richman Wants to Know Who the Rats Were Kate Carpenter interviews labor historian and former union organizer Shaun Richman about his new book We Always Had a Union.

I've wanted to do this @draftingthepast.bsky.social segment for a really long time. I approached "We Always Had a Union" as a journalist, trying to solve a murder mystery and, yes, find the FBI's rats while telling the hotelworkers' story.

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That @davidabanks.online chapter is about ST: DS9.

Good news, everybody! The completed manuscript for "So Long Dental Plan" has been submitted to the editors at @sunypress.bsky.social. Here are our chapter titles and authors.

a group of cartoon characters are standing in a line with homer simpson saying " dental plan lisa needs braces " ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing in a line with homer simpson saying " dental plan lisa needs braces "

I'm working on a book called @solongdentalplan.com.

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Were SpongeBob & Squidward in a union for their strike? It is your first amendment right to strike or protest against your oppressors. I hope you grow up and realize you have a boot in your mouth.

how the fuck were we watching SpongeBob as kids and not more union minded as a nation?

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day

The image features Chief Miles O'Brien, a character from the Star Trek universe, specifically Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The quote, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man," is a popular meme referencing Chief O'Brien's character and his background.

Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.

love this from @jennyhunter.bsky.social! excited to both be contributing to @solongdentalplan.com, a forthcoming book about depictions of unions and class struggle on television! (I had the pleasure of peer reviewing Jenny’s chapter and y’all are in for a treat!)

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Hey, are you a freelance writer with a fairly comprehensive knowledge of #SouthPark (including the more recent seasons)? I'm searching for someone atm, so if that describes you, please email me at lizmiller at consequence dot net with three links to samples and a little info about yourself. Thanks!

The plot thickens!

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s Crisis and decline in the working class were frequent themes in American popular culture during the 1970s. In contrast, more positive narratives about America’s managerial and professional class appea...

This is from Jason Russell's "Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s."

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Did not know there was a strike episode of the "Mary Tyler Moore Show!" Disappointing that nobody proposed a chapter on it. Maybe next book?

Oof. My youth mourns the loss of Hulk Hogan. He’s on the Mt. Rushmore of 1980s pop culture iconography (in between Mr. T and Pee Wee Herman).

Unlike Pee Wee, whose memory is pure joy, Terry Bollea was obviously more complicated.

@solongdentalplan.com will have a chapter in wrestling.

This will be a chapter in @solongdentalplan.com!

TFW Microsoft's non-consensual A.I. thinks your editorial meeting is a dental appointment.

ding ding ding! I don't think there's a conspiracy necessarily but I also think the execs with decision-making power don't wanna give everyday folks any big ideas!

I'm now editing So Long, Dental Plan." I love this section, which inadvertently explains exactly why there are no stories like this now.

Cannot wait for this—both as a researcher and as the partner of an organizer whom I lure into watching things by saying “There are labor/union themes…”

We're working on a book about this! Kinda. We just solicited any essays about union plots in pop TV. But it seems like there has been an uptick in positive storylines in the last decade.

It can't be overstated how hostile advertising-based TV has historically been to positive portrayals of unions.

LaGuardia: the pro-union mayor: Today’s City Hall contenders must follow Fiorello’s labor agenda In New York’s mayoral election, plenty of candidates claim to be the anti-Trump. But, when it comes to protecting workers’ rights and reducing economic inequality, the better question is who will b…

The 1934 hotel strike that was championed by LaGuardia was technically a failure, with the workers’ loyalties spread out across three unions — one Communist; one, an alliance of the democratic Left; and one mobbed up by the Dutch Schultz gang.

"We Always Had a Union" in @nydailynews.com.

State of the U.S. Unions 2025 This is my annual roundup of labor data on union membership, elections and strikes. How is the U.S. labor movement doing? What should it do…

This is my annual roundup of labor data on union membership, elections and strikes. How is the U.S. labor movement doing? What should it do in this new political era? #UnionYes #UnionStrong
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