Veena Dubal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Veena Dubal

"You know how quick some of the gentry are to suspect us of cheating and overcharging. Why, they stand with their purses in their hands, counting it over to a penny, and looking at us as if we were pickpockets." -livery driver in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty (1877)

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Time to revisit Kathi Weeks’ The Problem with Work. The best self help book I’ve ever read.

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Verso is offering “The End of Policing” by @avitale as a free e-book right now. I’ve downloaded and am eager to read 🔥 https://t.co/BAtaNaK1kf

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@vigneshr4m @ElSangito @Shubhangi_Domo @sanjuktampaul @sasskiran3 OMG also Bhairavi Desai, Biju Mathew of the National Taxi Workers Alliance, Anand Singh at Unite Here Local 2 that just won a huge contract for SFO workers...Saba Waheed at UCLA labor center, Chaumtoli Huq doing internationalist work...a growing community of radical solidarity!

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My amazing to-be colleague @MehrsaBaradaran’s book “The Color of Money” is a Staff Pick at my local public library!!! 🔥🔥 https://t.co/tbJHZo7o6a

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“Wobbly ideas are increasingly influential…workers at Google… have picked up strategies and tactics from a book called Labor Law for the Rank & Filer, cowritten by Daniel Gross, the …Wobbly who launched the 2004 Starbucks campaign.” ⁦@dgorganize⁩ https://t.co/LLxxVqbUwM

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“Data that would show drivers wanted to be independent, but based on carefully designed driver surveys. As Mark Twain famously wrote, there are “lies, damned lies and statistics”” 6/

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“Age has provided black feminist and counter-nationalist cultural producers with a framework by which to critique a liberal humanist schema of time that privileges political-economic uses of development.”—Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life by Habiba Ibrahim

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Amy Dru Stanley's From Bondage to Contract is VERY GOOD. Why have I not read this.

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Finally read the Palace Walk (first in the Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz) and dying to read any critical analysis of it as a work of post colonial fiction. Recommendations?