Contingent Magazine: "The Skilcraft pen is indeed more than a pen. It’s the physical embodiment of New Deal social policies; it’s the product of disabled people’s labor, labor which has long been a site of contestation."

"The Skilcraft pen is indeed more than a pen. It’s the physical embodiment of New Deal social policies; it’s the product of disabled people’s labor, labor which has long been a site of contestation."

The Government Pencontingentmagazine.org As a child, I thought it was extremely cool that working for the U.S. government meant that you could get a pen that said “U.S. Government.”

I teach labor & employment law in Greensboro, where the Skilcraft workers went on strike. Too few people know this history.

this is legit cool - technically the new deal was also the product of a disabled person's labor, since fdr had polio :-) but ya, good to trace objects thru history. and it was true that at the time fdr didn't identify as "disabled"!

I stole dozens of them.

And it can punch a hole about the same size as a .223 round. Or so I am told.

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