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Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
36: EYHO x Great Lakes Now: Fish Feast: Great Lakes Fish as Food, 7/27/2023
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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This episode of Eat Your Heartland Out, in collaboration with Great Lakes Now from Detroit Public Media, celebrates the flavorful and nutritious fi...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 1
Do Unions Work for the Economy
From: Open to Debate
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Unions may be on the verge of a resurgence. After decades of declines, workers are organizing across household-name companies, like Starbucks, Amaz...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KUOW, WGBH Radio Boston, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
35: EYHO x Great Lakes Now: The Importance of Commercial and Recreational FIshing in the Great Lakes, 7/20/2023
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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The Importance of Commercial and Recreational FIshing in the Great Lakes provides an overview of the ins and outs of fishing the Great Lakes with a...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 1
33: EYHO x Great Lakes Now: How to Feed A Great Lakes Freighter Crew
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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How to Feed A Great Lakes Freighter Crew spotlights chief stewards who are upping the food game aboard Great Lakes freighters. Meet two chefs who ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - America's Obsession with Work
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Americans are obsessed with work. American workers spend a lot more time at their jobs than other highly developed nations. Why?

Bought by KUHF, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
30: The Midwestern Urban Farming Movement, 08/04/2022
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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In this episode, we travel to Kansas City and St. Louis to learn about the impact of urban farming in the Midwest. We speak with Semra Fetahovic, ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
Looking at Labor Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: the International Labor Organization
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Caption: Kevin Cassidy of the International Labour Organization sees a very different environment for the workplace post-pandemic...including the fact that CEOs are among the most vulnerable to being replaced by artificial intelligence!
How has the pandemic changed the workforce, both regionally and globally? What can be done about this drastic change in demographics? Kevin Cassi...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:06
How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fair Trade Music Special
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 790 (Air Dates: Feb 17 - 23, 2020) This week we present a special edition of Art of the Song exploring an initiative called Fair Trade Music. ...

Bought by WBYC Community Radio, WHRV, KNBA, WETS, KKFI and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
World in Progress 12/19/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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this week on the show: Work — and no play? - As today's fast-paced world spins faster and faster, the pressure is taking a toll on people's me...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Housing as a Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 05/31/18
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Working against the odds - South Korea's automation craze is taking a toll on employees. Former gang members in El Sal...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Making Data Shift Power: Bex Hong Hurwitz and Rashida Richardson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech to innovate and empower? Bex Hong Hu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fast Food In Nigeria (2009 PRI/BBC The World)
From: Hechtech
Series: Nigeria-Niger Food Trilogy
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Running a fast food operation in a country beset with mismanagement, corruption, and lack of infrastructure.

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
Take Care #74
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Millennial work stress and berries.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The true cost of fast fashion: a look inside Los Angeles sweatshops
From: Making Contact
Caption: Santee Alley , Credit: Ana Gremard / Used Under CC/ flickr
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll take you on a trip through LA’s garment district, notorious for sweatshop conditions, abuse, and the outrig...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Take Care #42
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Physician assistants and nurse practitioners and fall vegetables.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
Changes - Part 2
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: CARGOLAND
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During the great recession, we all started to buy a lot less stuff. And the thing is, there’s whole industry built around bringing you the stuff yo...

Bought by KALW, WRPI, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 21:58
  • Purchases: 3
Full-Time Struggle, Part-Time Work
From: Making Contact
Caption: Panelists, Credit: New America NYC
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll hear from a panel of labor reporters, professors, and policy analysts as they discuss post-recession labor ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
TaskRabbit takes hold in Bay Area divided by income gap
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Beauty Premium -- Groks Science Show 2014-12-17
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jaclyn Wong discussed the beauty premium.

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 4
Pesticides on the Playground
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
In San Francisco, rent control gets personal
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Apartments in San Francisco, Credit: (wallyg/flickr)
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:13
2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
From: Liz Myers
Series: 2 Minute Teach-In
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2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:59