Episode 60- Dr. Andrea Haverkamp: labor organizer shares working class struggles

Summary: Today we are joined by Dr. Andrea Haverkamp. Dr. Haverkamp (she/her) recently completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a doctoral minor in Queer Studies at Oregon State University. Her research explores the experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming students in engineering and computer science, such as their sources of community support and collective resiliency in the face of adversity. Dr. Haverkamp serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, an open-source scholarly publication exploring the intersections of engineering and inequity across the globe. She also has involvement in American Society for Engineering Education and Society of Women Engineers. Before her Ph.D., Dr. Haverkamp has worked as an engineer in the Federal government and served as a science education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Liberia. She is currently a labor organizer supporting healthcare and hospital workers in Seattle with United Food & Commercial Workers Local 21, and previously served as President of Coalition of Graduate Employees, American Federation of Teachers Local 6069 at Oregon State University. She is a dual-card International Workers of the World union member and also a member of Socialist Alternative. You can find more about Dr. Haverkamp on her twitter, instagram, LinkedIn and her blog sjengineers.blog. Show Notes: Hoyte, Kansas | Wikipedia Battle of Blair Mountain | Wikipedia The Great Battle of Blair Mountain | Youtube Sacco and Vanzetti | Wikipedia 2021 Union Members Summary | United State Bureau of Labor Statistics Starbucks Union Vote Sets Up a Watershed Moment for U.S. Labor | Bloomberg David Graeber | Wikipedia Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber | Goodreads The Labor Day Graph That Says It All | Jacobin Magazine John Deere tried replacing union workers with scabs — and immediately had tractor crash in their plant: report | RawStory Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor | Bloomberg Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays | University of California at Berkeley Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Wikipedia Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19: 12 policies that would boost worker rights, safety, and wages | Economic Policy Institute The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement by Stanley Aronowitz | Verso Books Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty-first Century by Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber | The Anarchist Library What is the future of capitalism? by Conrad Cartmell, Josh Decker, Andrea Haverkamp, and Doug Lain | The Platypus Affiliated Society Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland | Laborwave Radio Podcast