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Michael Yates On Labor, the Economy, Growing up Working Class, and Surviving the Motels of America

Steve Early reviews four titles by Michael Yates, including In and Out of the Working Class on State of Nature.

Elly Leary Reviews In and Out of the Working Class

Elly Leary reviews Michael D. Yates’ In and Out of the Working Class in the January 2010 issue of Monthly Review. “Okay. Let’s get the disclaimers out of the way right now. I am a longtime fan of Mike Yates. A big fan. I have used his materials with community and labor activists, made some contributions to a few of his works, and answered his call to write for Monthly Review on other occasions. So it will come as no surprise that In and Out of the Working Class did not disappoint. This personal reflection and journey through the world of Mike Yates from the early 1950s to the present has made me an even bigger fan.” Learn more here.

Ian Hussey reviews Let Them Eat Junk

Read Ian Hussey’s review of Robert Albritton’s Let Them Eat Junk in Socialist Studies: the Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies. “His brilliance is not just in his understanding of Marx’s magnum
opus, but his ability to communicate an analysis of the global agriculture/food system in such a way that it is not unreasonable to think it of interest to engaged senior high school readers, but it is also substantive enough to work well in third and fourth year university and college classrooms of political science, sociology, labour studies, and environmental studies.” Read the full review.

NFB documentary on Kaie Kellough

Watch this short documentary featuring Kaie Kellough, author of the upcoming ARP title Maple Leaf Rag. Titled “Ebonflow”, this video by Aisha Thomton, Eli Levinson and Noah Leon, offers a glimpse into the African Canadian experience through Kaie’s spoken word verse.

Jan Guenther Braun interview

The Artist Next Door, in their focus on Winnipeg’s Wolseley district, recently interviewed Jan Guenther Bruan about growing up in Saskatchewan, her writing, performance, and being an organic grocer.

Swans reviews In and Out of the Working Class

Online journal Swans has posted a review by Louis Proyect of In and Out of the Working Class. “Yates’s writing has a powerful dramatic quality since it’s driven by tensions between the two worlds that he has inhabited and arguably never reconciled. Despite his decades-long career in academia, one of society’s most prestigious fields, he still felt like a worker most of the time, even with a bit of an inferiority complex as if he were not really qualified to exist in such rarefied circles.” Read the full review.

Michael D. Yates interviewed on WBAI’s “Behind the News”

On September 10th, In and Out of the Working Class author Michael D. Yates was interviewed by Doug Henwood on his show “Behind the News”, which airs on Pacifica’s NYC affiliate WBAI. (The segment begins at 35:00).

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New review of In and Out of the Working Class from In These Times

Stalwart progressive journal In These Times has published a great review of Michael D. Yates’ In and Out of the Working Class, remarking that “Yates moves up and out, but not away, from the consciousness of people who labor for a living.” Read the full review here.

How Music and Art Can Change the World

David Lester and Jean Smith of Mecca Normal have launched a website for their lecture/art exhibit and performance event called How Art & Music Can Change The World. David is the author of The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism, published by ARP. Visit the website.

New article by Michael D. Yates on CounterPunch

Michael D. Yates, author of In and Out of the Working Class, has published a new article entitled “Work Is Hell” on CounterPunch.org.