Students today face working conditions echoing 1930s pre-strike longshoremen

Evidence

WHEN I READ Selvin’s descriptions of the 1930s longshoremen before the strike, who lived unprotected from the vicissitudes of capital and “put up with round-the-clock shifts, cut short rest periods between jobs, and missed meal periods,” I’m reminded not only of today’s “new contract” and Talia Jane’s plight, but of a particular group of people: my students. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 318

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Each labor wave faced a distinctive occupational experience tied to the economy’s stage — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 669
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Each labor wave faced a distinctive occupational experience tied to the economy’s stage — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 669