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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
Season 1, Episode 1 - 'Healthy Work' feat Taylor Jacobson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Taylor Jacobson, CEO of Workmates, discusses the evolution of ‘work’ culture.

Bought by KSTK, KTRT RADIO INC, WDSE, and WOJB


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 4
09-18: Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger, 7/19/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Valerie Kaur
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 12, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Parkland School Shooting Victim’s Father Calls for National Education Stri...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Life As an Astronaut
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An astronaut experiences a juxtaposition of the sublime and the mundane, sensing God while floating weightless, fixing cables outside his spacecraft.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
The Knowledge of Power: Graduate Worker Exploitation at Indiana University
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Striking graduate worker Nathan Douglas quotes from Vice Provost Eliza Pavalko's 1987 dissertation.
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
Inequality ... what's the problem?
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which host Justin Angle speaks with economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader cha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
David Jepsen, Educator, Historian, Author, Film Maker of Labor Wars of the Northwest
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: A Film by David Jepsen
Interview by Mike Dumovich: David talks about his new documentary and how important this film is to students, history, and workers.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stacked Crooked: Renting Rooms In the Humanities Ghetto
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
David Jepsen, Educator, Historian, Author, Film Maker of Labor Wars of the Northwest
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: David Jepsen
Interview by Mike Dumovich: David talks about his new documentary and how important this film is to students, history, and workers.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy, and Author at University of Michigan
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Dr. Elizabeth Anderson
Interview by Ken Winkes: Dr. Anderson discusses her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It).”

  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Paul Galovin, Rep for the Pacific NW Regional Council of Carpenters and Nate Nehring, Snohomish County Councilman
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Regional Apprenticeship Pathways
Interview by Gary Kanter: Paul and Nate describe the Regional Apprenticeship Pathways (RAP) program.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Joe Thomas, President of the Arizona Education Association
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joe Thomas, AZEDASS
Interview by Lori Province: Joe describes the amazing actions by teachers and the community to support their public schools.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
Education Activists Back To School With A Test for Devos
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2018 has been a year of upheaval for students, in and out of the classroom. This week educators and education activists talk about educational just...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:26
Paul Hope, a member of the WA Education Association
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Paul Hope
Interview by Ken Winkes: Paul explains the Washington State teachers’ current salary negotiations.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 1
Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura talks to SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry (of the Service Employees) and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about worker wins, challeng...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
Hiring Managers say Emotional Intelligence is Key: Become more Emotionally Intelligent
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Become More Emotionally Intelligent
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, emotional intelligence will be one of the top 10 job skills in 2020. Show starts wit...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 53:39
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochan
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Darby Frye, Labor Educator for the WA St Labor Education & Research Center at the South Seattle College
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: WA ST Labor Education & Research Center
Interview by Gary Kanter: Darby explains the mission of the Labor Center and its current projects.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
“Do you think public school teachers are paid enough?”
From: WFHB
Series: Voices in the Street
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week's edition asks Bloomington residents what they think about teacher pay.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager for UCLA Labor Center, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Tia Koonse, UCLA Labor Center
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tia discusses wage thief and how it affects local economies.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:08
Viking Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: George Lakey at Occupy Philly
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Paul Hope, President of the Washington Education Association Fourth Corner, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Paul Hope, Educator
Interview by Ken Winkes: Paul goes over what happen to funding of education in Washington’s legislative session.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:10
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