Workers Reading Book Club

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LABOR UNION BOOK CLUB💪📚 Discussing nonfiction & fiction books about labor history, unions, & employment! 📖 Chain-Gang All-Stars https://linktr.ee/workersreading

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “Racial scientific rhetoric about slavery linked fatness to greedy Africans. And religious discourse suggested that overeating was ungodly”

Photo of a hand holding The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

Cover of Zom 100 volume 1 by Haro Aso on a pavement background

Cover of Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Cover of the book Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Quote from Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings written on an orange background that reads “[…] slenderness served as a marker of moral, racial, and national superiority”

Screenshot from the Fable app, reading that Workers Reading changed the book for their club from The New Jim Crow to Fearing the Black Body