An "engaging" firsthand account of the organizing effort inside one of the world's largest tech companies—and its impact on one Pittsburgh family ( Booklist).In 2019, Ben Gwin played an integral role in organizing the contract workers at Google's Pittsburgh offices. In Team Building, he takes us inside the employees' fight for better benefits and more flexible scheduling, offering us a candid account of today's labor movement and the forces in Amer...

“Ben Gwin writes like F. Scott Fitzgerald high on meth and Clean Time is The Great Gatsby for a generation that thinks fame is the answer to every question.” –Lori Jakiela, author of Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo WorkerFramed as the drug-addled memoir of addict-turned-reality TV star Ronald Reagan Middleton (annotated and published by floundering doctoral candidate Harold Swanger), Clean Time is a darkly comic satire set in a near-future America ravage...

How does an atheist become an evangelist? How does a drug addict become a dedicated disciple of Jesus Christ? How do the hopeless find a Living Hope? In the pages of this book you will see one such story of the saving power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is not only more than able but He is more than willing to bring about great deliverance in all of our lives! There is no such thing as a hopeless case for an almighty God!

Young Ben Franklin was happy. It was going to be a GREAT day. After all, it was a holiday!Ben quickly finished his chores. Then he went out to play with his friends.Ben lived in Boston. It was not a big city 200 years ago. It was a small town. But there was still a lot for a boy of seven to see.Soon Ben met up with his friends. They played for a short time. Then the boys gathered around Ben."Close your eyes and hold your hand out," one of them told Ben.Be...

Explore Pittsburgh through poetry and essays with this probing guide to the Steel City's diverse locales.Pittsburgh is made up of more than ninety different neighborhoods. And while The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook can't detail every last one of them, it does its best, exploring the contrasts and contradictions that define the city's neighborhoods and how they play out through the personal narratives of those who live there. Edited by Ben Gwin, in the...