Jane McAlevey on Amazon Workers’ Next Big Battles and Margo Jefferson on “Constructing a Nervous System”

Jane McAlevey on Amazon Workers’ Next Big Battles and Margo Jefferson on “Constructing a Nervous System”

On this week’s podcast, we discuss what the Amazon workers have to do next—and how they should do it.   

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The Amazon workers on Staten Island have won a historic victory—but now they must prepare to strike, and to win support for their strike from the community power structure. Nation strikes correspondent Jane McAlevey explains why, and how.

Also on this week’s show, we have a conversation with Margo Jefferson about her new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System. Her earlier memoir, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and before that she won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism for her work as book and arts critic for The New York Times. She’s also written for The Nation.

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


Start Making Sense Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.  


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