Laundries are huge spaces and the linen moves from the soil department into the wash department. Jams happen often in the tunnel, and in non union laundries, it is not infrequent for workers to climb inside the machine to get the jam out. And my book is dedicated to someone named Elia Sar Torres Gomez, who died in an industrial dryer in a sin toss facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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