Labor | Labor
Dec.03.2009
Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a sweeping journey into the secret history of coal-mining in American heartland. In the ruins of his family’s strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, Biggers unfolds a deeply personal and...
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Dec.27.2008
My essay is in book anthology "What We Have in Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies" edited by Janet Zandy, Feminist Press, NY. The book was a pathbreaking anthology helping to establish working class studies in the United States including both essays and course syllabi. I...
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Dec.27.2008
Shulamith is dramatic and narrative poetry in three parts: the first part is dramatic monologues in the voices of Biblical women such as Eve, Lilith, Sara, Rachel, Leah, Miriam etc; the second part are narrative poems about Yiddish-speaking women such as Isaach Bashevis Singer's writer sister,...
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Dec.27.2008
Poetry about three generations of Jewish women: immigrant grandmothers who clawed their way out of sweatshops; Anne Frank after she was arrested, and the author's surviving a harrowing illegal abortion
Cover photo of Julia Stein by David Brown
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Jan.30.2008
Few regions in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, and yet no other region has been so misrepresented by the mass media. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers's groundbreaking work shows how a remarkable procession of innovators from the hills of...
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Dec.21.2007
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here’s a storyteller’s tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
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