What Work Is, and Isn’t: Poet Laureate Philip Levine

Asking “what work is,” even in a time of mass unemployment, can lead to asking about how work is allocated, organized, and controlled.

Excellent essay, "What Work Is, and Isn’t: Poet Laureate Philip Levine" by Nick Coles.

[Nick Coles teaches working-class literature at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the president of the Working-Class Studies Association.]