Texts
We will read/watch the following texts in this course. All films will be screened in class and can also be found on Kanopy (visit guttman.kanopy.com and use your CUNYFirst login credentials). All book readings will be provided via PDF and/or printout in class.
- Dollars & Sense, New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche
- “Union” (film), directed by Brett Story
- Kim Kelly, Fight Like Hell, chapters 1, 2 and 6
- Callum Cant, Riding for Deliveroo, ch. 1, 5 and 6
- Ayoung Kim exhibit at MOMA PS1 (Class field trip 1/22)
- Hammer and Hope, Interview with Alfredo Juarez Zeferino
- Hammer and Hope, No Money, No Milk
- The Nation, The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike | The Nation
- “The Killing Floor” (film), directed by Bill Duke
- Jacobin, “The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power.”
- “When We Fight” (film), directed by Yael Bridge and Yoni Golijov


