Belabored Podcast #182: (Slowly) Seizing the Means of Production
How would the workplace be different if the workers owned it?
Spring 2019
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Belabored Podcast #181: Hong Kong Pushed to the Edge
Following Hong Kong’s first general strike in decades, three activists talk about labor’s role in the protests.
Belabored Podcast #180: General Strike in Puerto Rico Gets the Goods, with Mercedes Martinez
The President of the Puerto Rico Teachers Federation talks about this week’s protests and the ongoing fight against corruption.
Belabored Podcast #179: Samsung’s Labor Abuses
South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Belabored Podcast #178: A Nurse’s Prescription for Fixing Healthcare
Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including Medicare for All and safe staffing levels in hospitals.
Belabored Podcast #177: More Hours for What We Will, with Will Stronge
What if the best thing we could do—for ourselves, the planet, and even our workplaces—was to work less?
Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC
Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.
Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers
Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.
Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike
Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.
Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock
The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.
Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks
Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?
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Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.
