Daisy Pitkin on On the Line

February 7, 2023. This week's guest on Bibliocracy Radio is the author of a book on labor justice organizing by way of memoir, the natural world and radical history. Daisy Pitkin's gorgeous On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union is one of my recent favorite nonfiction reads, a poetic mix of documentary and imaginative writing built on discovery, insight, and struggle. It’s about working with industrial laundry workers in the American Southwest, about friendship, betrayal, and victory, too. Organized as a letter and a manifesto, a journal and a political analysis, it’s a book about changing lives, including both the writer’s and, perhaps even readers’ lives. Thanks for supporting people-powered Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California.

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