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In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 28:30
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...
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- 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
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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
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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
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Over one million North Carolinians make the minimum wage at their job: Seven-twenty-five an hour. While many states and cities have recently raised...
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 04:57
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
Federally, marijuana production is still a major crime, one that can land you in prison for decades. Yet, in northern California, there’s a whole e...
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- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 11:26
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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
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis talks to the National Press Club about the Obama Administration's plans to help the nation's economy.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 54:03
This documentary examines the volatile issues that are tearing at social fabric of the state of Wisconsin.
Its Republican governor is determined...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 31:58
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Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:40
