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and by West Virginia University Press, which has loads of great titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is, so much to be angry about.

Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969 to 1979, by Sean Slyfer.

In a remarkable act of recovery, so much to be angry about conjures an influential but largely

obscured strand in the nation's radical tradition, the movement printing presses and publishers

of the late 1960s and 70s.

More than a history, Sean Slyfer's craft an activist-centered book

positions the frontline politics of the Appalachian left within larger movements of the 1970s.

So much to be angry about combines complete reproductions of five of Appalachian movement presses, most engaging publications, and an essay by Sean Slifer about his detective work resurrecting to presses fascinating history.

So much to be angry about.

Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969 to 1979 by Sean Slyfer.

Out now from West Virginia University Press.

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

It's entirely clear that all meaningful progress is impossible without an organized working class, a working class organized into labor unions. Unfortunately, the labor movement has faced decades of devastating

setbacks, losing millions of members thanks to a bipartisan toward towards neoliberalism, a coordinated

corporate offensive against the New Deal

settlement, and most recently, the rise of apps like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, which used

technology to mystify their actual achievement, which is the mass casualization of labor,

all of that and more. This week's dig comes in two parts. This episode is an interview with

labor journalist Alex Press and organizer Jonah Furman, a big picture assessment of the state of

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