Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV

Hey, @merriam-webster.com, you've got us in a dispute with our copy editor. Why do you capitalize Gen X but not millennials?

teen drama plotline of all time!!!! my chapter on this truly one of a kind march on the boss is coming in @solongdentalplan.com next year!

you really do gotta see it to believe it! no wonder she organizes with her coworkers like two scenes later✊🦀

What happens when a march on the boss occurs on TV? Well sometimes instead of "So long, dental plan!" it's "goodbye, laundry expenses."

Oh just a little SLDP talk on Lindy West's podcast, with @jennyhunter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkEO...

It has pages! One step closer to publication.

Can't wait until this comes out, 2+ years in the making! I have a chapter with an in-depth analysis of the organizing on the show "Superstore," and yeah, I'm annoying in my critique. sunypress.edu/Books/S/So-L...!

If you're on Goodreads, you can now "Want To Read" our April 2027 @sunypress.bsky.social book "So Long, Dental Plan!: Unions, Labor Relations, and Class Struggle... as Seen on TV." www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

We know we hate them, but it always helps make a book-in-production feel real when it shows up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/So-Long-Dent...

We have an ISBN: 9798855812497 sunypress.edu/Books/S/So-L...!

It is also the subject of a chapter I wrote for the book @solongdentalplan.com, forthcoming April 2027 from SUNY Press.

It’s One Tree Hill’s golden birthday — 23 years old on September 23! As loyal listeners of #LeftistTeenDrama know, the workplace organizing plotline in Season 2, Episode 12 inspired this podcast!

Solidarity with @seiu1199nw.bsky.social

YES, great cover, can't wait for this to come out!

We have a cover! “So Long, Dental Plan!” Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV, coming April 2027 from @sunypress.bsky.social.

Fran Fine and Homer Simpson featured prominently in our forthcoming book on "Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV."

Next year the labor-in-TV-shows book “So Long, Dental Plan!” will come out, including my chapter about the teachers strike in House of Cards! Great 🧵 below, all the chapters will be awesome

Friend of the pod slash recurring guest on #LeftistTeenDrama Kelly Diaz is also featured in @solongdentalplan.com, digging into a plotline we cover on the pod: the food workers strike on THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS! Keep an eye out for the book coming Spring 2027 ✊

!!! I'm so excited that we have an April 2027 release date for @solongdentalplan.com, the book i was so honored to contribute a chapter to about the organizing plotline on ONE TREE HILL that inspired the pod! Make sure you're following for updates about preorder info when it becomes available! ✊

This is gonna be a banger!

Great book coming out next year on depictions of unions and labor in TV shows!

I would buy this for the title alone but the chapters also look great.

We're excited to announce that "So Long, Dental Plan" Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV is scheduled to be published in April 2027 by SUNY Press. Pre-orders will begin around X-Mass time.

"The Boss Needs You..." prints are restocked in all sizes! I have t-shirts, tank tops, and stickers too. willburrows.art/shop Also - I have an 18"x24" copy with a 1/4" tear at the top edge that I'll sell for 25% off. The tear would be completely concealed if you plan to frame it.

Anecdotally, we found that the era of Peak TV (RIP) opened more opportunities for TV creatives to work in plots about unions vs. bosses.

Me, having just turned in @solongdentalplan.com to @sunypress.bsky.social.

Oddly, the little TV book (which will have multiple indexed references to the Mafia, mob, organized crime, etc.) will have TWO indexed references to "Godfather Part II" (but none for the original "Godfather").

This little book about TV shows somehow will have two index entries for Gary Hart. (None mention Monkey Business.)

One author notes that Larry Summers "still rants about collectivist economics on social media and unquestionably wherever he appears in his well-paid private talks." Amended to note that our boy doesn't get out much anymore.

One author referred to an elementary school picture book on Cesar Chavez as a formative influence. Changed to "Delano grape boycott."

I'm doing post-peer review edits on @solongdentalplan.com. Two edits to reflect the passing of a year; one fun, one grim. 1/3

I also told him I thought his book would make a good TV show. This was on my mind b/c Shaun and I met working on So Long Dental Plan (@solongdentalplan.com), the upcoming book he edited about stories about unions in scripted TV. Keep an eye out for it, nerds of labor and TV! 3/3