The “Themester” (theme for the semester) for fall 2015 on the IU-Bloomington campus is: “@Work: the Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet.” This series of films, plays, lectures, small-group conversations, and other events will be of interest to anyone who wants to better understand the conditions of work today and how they got that way.
A reading group on theories of work, led by Prof. Ilana Gershon, IU Anthropology Department, will meet at 2 pm every Friday at IU’s College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI), 1211 East Atwater Avenue, through December 4.
This piece is a follow up to Feline Local 2010 and was written in the summer of 2012 and is published here for the first time. My rationale for posting it here? There are not nearly enough cats on the web. Enjoy.
It's serious work we do most of the time, and serious issues we deal with it. Too much serious isn't good for a person, I don't think.
This is a piece I wrote in the summer of 2010, shortly after stepping down as President of CWA 4730. I was feeling fairly jolly at the time and felt lighthearted article was in order. Three years later the story is still relevant and, I hope, still amusing. It was originally published in in the September 2010 issue of Solidarity Now!