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Our three guests today are all PhD candidates in various departments at Indiana University. We discuss the graduate workers’ strike, the formation ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 58:59
Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. David Roedige...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...
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- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 58:26
Today’s show focuses on the way the cigarette industry shaped the form and legal structure which all corporations would follow in the US. One of th...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 59:19
13 of us die on the job every day in the US and that’s a number based on less than reliable employer data. These are often called "accidents," but ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
While citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within: a business community committed to the ranc...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 58:12
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 58:00
Food stamps, Social Security, and Medicaid are not the only, or even the largest, social welfare programs in America. Professor Suzanne Mettler rev...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 23:45
Interview: Gillian explains the current trade agreements being secretly negotiated and how they are hurting Americans and democracy. The effects o...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 28:04
Chris Reykdal, Boeing Extortion with 22nd LD Representative from WA State
Interview: Chris explains why Washington State was extorted by the Boei...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 27:58
OURWalmart members, Betty Shove and Patty Mannion with
OURWalmart Community Organizer, Jeremy Blomberg
Interview: Betty and Patty tell personal ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 28:12
Melissa and Mark, who produced Shift Change, explain worker cooperatives and how they offer an alternative to the often crass, uncaring, and dehuma...
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 28:26
Did you know that Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States, and that the average Wal-Mart worker earns just $8.81 per hour, fo...
- Added: Nov 01, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 29:01
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Today we speak with author Chuck Collins of the Institute For Policy Studies, whose new book is titled The Moral Measure of the Economy
- Added: Sep 24, 2007
- Length: 28:01
