Swingline was more than a neon sign over Queens. For the workers who made staplers and staples there, it offered everything they needed to get a foothold in New York. A year after it closed, many are still struggling to find a job to call their own.
Where are the white voices of outrage against police brutality?
A book review of Working Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II, by Joshua B. Freeman, The New Press, $35, 432 pages.
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