Episode 118: Why Kim Kelly Wants Workers To “Fight Like Hell”

The Checkout speaks with journalist Kim Kelly, author of “Fight Like Hell: The Untold Story of American Labor”.

Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Esquire, among many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV. Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at “Noisey,” VICE’s music vertical, and was an original member of the VICEUnion. A third-generation union member, she is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalists Union as well as a member and elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913

photo courtesy of Elizabeth Kreitschman.

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