This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

and by Rose Metal Press, which has loads of great titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is The After Normal, brief, alphabetic essays on a changing planet

by David Carlin and Nicole Walker.

In our era of interconnected ecological, political, and human rights catastrophes,

David Carlin and Nicole Walker contemplate the role of the individual in the midst of

increasingly inescapable collective action crises that call the very concept of survival into question.

In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays,

the authors engage in a long-distance dialogue, creating an improvisational subversion of the

encyclopedia, a witty yet serious parody of a survival guide. Refusing equally to find

solace and false hopes, or given to murky despair, Carlin and Walker deftly use the flash non-fiction

form to wonder and worry their way through the alphabet. The After Normal, brief, alphabetic

essays on a changing planet by David Carlin and Nicole Walker, out now from Rose Metal Press.

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a Broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. How did the American economy go from unionized industry and sectors

like Steel to precarious service work in industries like hospitals? And how did it come to be that

healthcare is the largest sector of employment in the country, particularly so in deindustrialized

cities? The new deal era is often considered a golden age for the white working class.

In many ways, it was. But the right-wing reaction beginning in the 1940s

curved the labor movements most radical ambitions. What emerged in its wake was a powerful

labor movement whose power was in many ways confined to protecting its members. Social democratic

reforms like a national health insurance program were dashed. Many black workers were shut out

...