[Linganth] The Pandemic Workplace

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
The APLA reading group continues with my book, *The Pandemic Workplace*.
  We will all chat on Friday, April 4th from 12-1 pm *east coast time*.

I am suggesting the introduction and a very short conclusion (that
discusses Trump's appeal).   Please read as much as you can, but do feel
free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.

Introduction:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4LtQg07uHHSG3fPVqmOHGThs0EA2rJS/view?usp=sharing

Conclusion:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjeFc6TjYbKfUMZvpFGyoaVAJfFc-jgM/view?usp=sharing

The meeting will be 12-1 pm  EST Friday, April 4th and can be reached by
clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana

Press blurb: A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we can
learn to live democratically (or not).

In *The Pandemic Workplace*, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her
attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the
pandemic. She argues that the unprecedented organizational challenges of
the pandemic forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes about work and
to think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. These changes
also led us as workers to engage more with the contracts that bind us as we
rethought when and how we allow others to tell us what to do.

Based on over two hundred interviews, Gershon’s book reveals how
negotiating these tensions during the pandemic made the workplace into a
laboratory for democratic living—the key place where Americans are learning
how to develop effective political strategies and think about the common
good. Exploring the explicit and unspoken ways we are governed (and govern
others) at work, this accessible book shows how the workplace teaches us to
be democratic citizens.
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