Bartending My Way Through Life (and Grad School)

Emily Cashour
6 min readNov 2, 2019

A Marxist analysis, and a social reflection on my time working within the service industry.

Most food related photo I could find in a pinch aka, last minute about to publish this and realizing i needed a dumb photo to get ppl interested. enjoy :)

Let’s talk a bit about my personal experience within my workplace, a restaurant/bar called Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland. I don’t want to scare you away by talking about how this is a Marxist analysis, but I won’t lie, it is. I literally wrote it for a class called “Marxism for Activists”…

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Emily Cashour

27 year old writer & graduate student, passionate about storytelling as a great equalizer. Email:egcashour@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you!!