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Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 19, 2023

The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?

Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 5, 2023

On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.

Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 5, 2023

Matt and Sam talk to writers on Succession and Extrapolations about the WGA strike and how they approach political topics and themes on their shows.

Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 21, 2023

The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.

Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 18, 2023

On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.

Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 10, 2023

Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.

Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 5, 2023

In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.

Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 13, 2023

A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.

Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 27, 2023

Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”

Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 13, 2023

A discussion on Philip Rieff, a conservative sociologist concerned that society was being driven by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones.

Belabored: Essential Workers in Crisis, with Elizabeth Lalasz and Jia Lee

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 23, 2022

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.