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Why the Stories Working People Tell Ourselves About Ourselves Matter
Over the 2026 Labor Day weekend, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke at the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium in Wheeling, West Virginia, organized by the Wheeling Academy of Law & Science (WALS) Foundation. The theme of this year’s Symposium was “The Art of Labor,” and other speakers included: Tabitha Arnold, textile artist and tapestry maker; Erik Ruin, printmaker and shadow puppeteer; and Shaun Slifer, a multidisciplinary artist and the Creative Director for the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.
In this episode of Working People, we share the audio recording of Alvarez’s…
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