Ann Larson
@annlarson.bsky.social
Book: CLEANUP ON AISLE FIVE https://annlarsonwrites.com/ Writer and organizer. Cofounder, the debt collective Free Palestine
I offered some advice for supermarket shoppers on the wonderful Weirdly Helpful podcast with Zak Rosen. weirdlyhelpful.show/episodes/a-w...
A Weirdly Helpful View From Behind the Supermarket Register
Ann Larson is the author of Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register. Her writing on ...
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Please join us on Thursday for Democratizing Knowledge: Creation Beyond the University, hosted by @debtcollective.bsky.social Every crisis is a hinge point. What does the future of scholarship look like? When: Jul 16, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm ET Register here: debtcollective.org/event/colleg...
I loved chatting with Clancy Harrison on the Food Dignity podcast about the hidden hunger behind grocery stores. We talked about the supermarket checkstand as a metaphor for economic inequality and food justice. @economichardship.bsky.social clancyharrison.com/podcast/epis...
Episode 248: The Hidden Hunger Behind Grocery Stores - Clancy Harrison
Today, Clancy speaks with Ann Larson, author of Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register. Ann shares what she learned after spending more...
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This was such a fun interview. Brian asked great questions, and I loved hearing from former supermarket workers who called in to share their own stories from behind the register.
The Brian Lehrer Show@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 3w ago@annlarson.bsky.social, a fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, talks about her new book "Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register." Listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
A video that shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest inside a Salt Lake City home went viral this week. In it, agents restrain a middle-aged man and a teenager while a woman screams, “Get out of my house!”
In viral video, ICE appears to make warrantless arrest inside a Salt Lake home
A video that shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest inside a Salt Lake City home went viral this week. In it, agents restrain a middle-aged man and a teenager while a woman screams, “Get out of my house!”
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This is one of my favorite interviews about Cleanup on Aisle Five. Courtney asked great questions that allowed me to develop some of the themes of the book, from the connection between injury and mental health to what time feels like when you're selling your labor by the hour.
KERA Think@think.kera.org · 4w ago🎧 To understand class, check out a grocery store:
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Egyptian Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before his country played Argentina A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed. Continue reading...
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Janae Walls lost access to food stamps, and her kids have noticed: They ask her, “Why don’t we have a bunch of food in the house like we used to?” Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is at fault: https://bit.ly/4f3FI45
The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps
New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.
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Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
Check out this week's recent #EconomicUpdate with @profwolff.bsky.social & @annlarson.bsky.social discussing #exploitation, #labor and essential #work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2C...
Economic Update: Supermarket Jobs, Super Exploitation
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For @thenation.com, author @annlarson.bsky.social talks workplace injuries for retail workers in the context of her new book, CLEAN UP ON AISLE FIVE, out now from @onesignalbks.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...
What Working in a Grocery Store Taught Me About American Inequality
"While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution," writes Ann Larson.
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A wonderful excerpt from @annlarson.bsky.social's CLEAN UP ON AISLE FIVE in @timemagazine.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...
What Working in a Grocery Store Taught Me About American Inequality
"While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution," writes Ann Larson.
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Caroline Tracey (@cetracey.bsky.social) on the long history of proposals to suck up profits from the Great Salt Lake
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
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Here's an excerpt from my latest article about worker injuries in retail, the companies that help employers wriggle out of workers comp claims, and the bipartisan failure to fund OSHA. Read the article funded by @economichardship.bsky.social in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
I'm on @thenation.com podcast today talking to the great @jonwiener.bsky.social about my book Cleanup on Aisle Five and the struggles of supermarket workers. www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...
Why Harvard Won’t Settle—Plus, the Struggles of Supermarket Workers
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Randall Kennedy analyzes Harvard v. Trump, and Ann Larson explains work behind the grocery store checkstand.
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Amazon Whole Foods' push to overturn union election results at a Philly store have been denied, allowing the certification of the results, where workers voted to unionize despite Amazon's anti-union campaign
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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If you ever wanted to know what it's like to work the closing shift at a supermarket, this excerpt from my book Cleanup on Aisle Five is for you.
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 2mo ago"Closing the store on time was a way to push back against bosses who treated us like widgets and paid us pennies. My colleagues and I worked days, nights, or a combination of them." https://bit.ly/4uAF6ce
If you've ever wondered what it's really like to work in a supermarket, check out this excerpt of my book, Cleanup on Aisle Five, about a security guard at war with late night shoppers.
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 2mo ago"Closing the store on time was a way to push back against bosses who treated us like widgets and paid us pennies. My colleagues and I worked days, nights, or a combination of them." https://bit.ly/4uAF6ce
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals w/ Bob( @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social )Buzzanco & Scott( @sparki1969.bsky.social )Parkin "Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America's Grocery Stores w/ Ann( @annlarson.bsky.social )Larson (G&R 502)" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America's Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson (G&R 502)
Podcast Episode · Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · June 11 · 48m
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What Working in a Grocery Store Taught Me About American Inequality. Analysis by @annlarson.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...
What Working in a Grocery Store Taught Me About American Inequality
"While the affluent are living longer, healthier lives and retiring with a nest egg and their dignity, low-income workers are facing destitution," writes Ann Larson.
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~NEW EPISODE~ Essential work and poverty wages at America's grocery stores. In our latest, we talk w/ writer @annlarson.bsky.social about her new book about working in a #SaltLakeCity grocery store during the pandemic. 🎙️: bit.ly/3QDbAEy
Grocery stores are FASCINATING labor stories. Spoke to Ann Larson about her new book "Cleanup on Aisle Five," a firsthand account of working at a grocery store through the pandemic. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/brutal-opp...
Brutal Oppression and Beautiful Humanity Exist In Every Grocery Store
An interview with Ann Larson about "Cleanup on Aisle Five"
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Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
This is the playbook. Tenants unionized and withheld rent because they had unsafe conditions + payments were unaffordable. They built up debt. Then city officials intervened + pressured the landlord to cancel the debts. This can happen everywhere. gothamist.com/news/landlor...
Landlord targeted by Mamdani agrees to forgive back rent in 5,100 apartments
The company Summit says it will waive unpaid rent in its new building portfolio as long as tenants resume making payments.
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