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Join the search for The American Worker. Kevin Van Meter: author, labor educator, union organizer, PhD. Books at @AKPressDistro. Inquiry via @workinquirywork.
Detroit, MI
Joined October 2022
"Kevin Van Meter discusses the 1947 pamphlet 'The American Worker,' its international impact and the significance of workers’ inquiry." Take a read at @NewPoliticsMag here:
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Kevin Van Meter discusses the 1947 pamphlet "the American Worker," its international impact and the significance of workers' inquiry.
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Joined Clark McAllister for a talk about the history of workers' inquiry at the Belfast Radical Bookfair yesterday. Appreciate the organizers having us, all the participants, and the @IrelandIww for their support. #WorkersInquiry #BookFair
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Joined Jack Edmunds-Bergin, Emma Rebekka Petersen, and Clark McAllister for a talk on workers' inquiry in Ireland, Germany, England, and the US in Dublin on Wednesday. Appreciate @CatuIreland and @NotesFrom_Below for putting out the word, Peader Browns pub for hosting!
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In Belfast this Saturday for the Radical Bookfair? Join Clark McAllister from @NotesFrom_Below and Kevin Van Meter at @AmericanWork47 about the history and practice of workers' inquiry from 11:30-12:30. #bookfair #belfast #workersinquiry
Workers are on the move—refusing work, fighting bosses and organizing unions, demanding control over housing, speaking about their working lives and struggles. Join Clark McAllister (@notesfrombelow) and Kevin Van Meter (@americanwork47) in Belfast for a talk on #workersinquiry
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Issue 4 is out this month! Long-Haul is a subscription-based print magazine publishing quarterly. Subscriber copies ship first, with new subscribers receiving both issues 3+4. Don’t miss! 📚 https://t.co/LLSSvbfCvk Design by studiosasu__
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In Dublin this Wednesday? Join comrades from @NotesFrom_Below, @CatuIreland, @workinquirywork, and others for a discussion on workers’ inquiry!
Immigrant workers, agricultural, cafe and grocery, digital platform, arts and culture, and education workers in Ireland, Germany, England, and the US have been sharing their lives and struggles through workers’ inquiries. Join us in Dublin as we examine these recent inquires!
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One of Edinburgh’s bourgeois citadels was stormed tonight with a full house for new #JamesConnolly film at the Filmhouse. Great to see old friends & new comrades & the main man on the big screen in his hometown. #JCS40 Let Us Rise! https://t.co/t08dLfZkcp
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Wonderful crowd last night in Edinburgh for a workshop on first-person narratives of work and workers' inquiry. Met fantastic trade unionists and new comrades. Thank you to the TUIC Hub for hosting and @JimSlaven of the @ConnollySociety for their support organizing the event.
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As of today, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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“What workers' inquiry seeks to accomplish is to understand production & the experience of work from workers' own perspective. What are workers thinking you're doing in the course of the workday? What kind of struggles are they engaged in?” #EconomicUpdate
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Podcast Episode · Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff · 11/11/2025 · 32m
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In Edinburgh tomorrow evening? Join me at the TUIC Hub for a workshop on workers' inquiry. Participants will hear a short lecture on the history and practice of inquiry then will engage in writing and interview exercises. After wonderful events in London excited for this!
Workers are on the move—fighting bosses and organizing unions, demanding control over housing, speaking about their working lives, and demanding workplace and real democracy. One of the tools to understand and amply these struggles is workers’ inquiry. Join me in Edinburgh in Nov
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In London this evening? Don’t miss @jamie_woodcock talk about game worker organizing to be held at @maydayrooms.
Our next Learning Circle event with @jamie_woodcock about unionising game devs Tickets and more info in comments
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Special thanks to @sethnotes for hosting, @NotesFrom_Below and @CommonNotions for publicizing the event, and @anastasiawilson for pictures.
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"Beginning with the 1947 publication of The American Worker pamphlet a new form of “proletarian literature”emerged from the automotive factories and corners of Marxian movements in the US." Apprecaite @maydayrooms hosting my talk last night and the support of those who attended!
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Four hours to showtime. Check out @OvetzRobert and @AmericanWork47 on #EconomicUpate chatting about #WorkersInquiry and the labor movement in the US today.
Don't miss and all-new #EconomicUpdate with @OvetzRobert @AmericanWork47 & @profwolff today at 4:30 PM EST @workinquirywork on Resurgent #Labor Organizing & #WorkersInquiry Watch it here: https://t.co/RP5I8kC4Y3
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Ever so enjoyed our panel with Andrew Osborne, Alex Pyne from @bbiunion, @abolisheconomics, and myself @americanwork47 on workers’ inquiry in the US yesterday. The inquiry continues!
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Attending @histmat in London? Want to continue the conversations? Join us at @maydayrooms on Monday evening. #workersinquiry
Join us at @maydayrooms in London on Monday 10 November for an event on a new form of proletarian literature that emerged from American automotive plants in 1947. Please register here and tell all your friends:
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Picked up this tome at the @maydayrooms release event for Ed Emery's new book out now on @pressagit. Not only was it an incredible evening of talks from @sethnotes and the author but the passages read we're really joyful and beautiful during these dark times. #workersinquiry
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Take a listen to @americanwork47 on the @librarypunk pod:
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