Confronting Labor On Campus and Beyond

Labor isn’t pretty. Amherst College is pretty — especially as it prepares to host the families of its graduating seniors, who will undoubtedly remember the beauty of the commencement ceremony, the speeches and campus aesthetics for a long time. But what makes this campus pretty and functional as an institution that feeds, houses, entertains, pampers and also educates, 1800 students is the labor of a small army of Val workers, landscapers, secretaries, custodians and student employees. Except at