Episode 58: Chris Dietrich on the Energy Crisis and the Anticolonial Elite
When we talk about the 1973 energy crisis, we tend to cast it as a moment when Americans questioned assumptions about how the domestic economy worked and the U.S. role in the global economy. We don't ...
1 Aug 201939min
Liz Montegary on the Political Economy of LGBT Families
We've just ended pride month and both the victories and limits of GLBT politics were on view. In San Francisco, protesters engaged in civil disobedience action against the growing corporatization of p...
3 Juli 201958min
Peter Cole on the Power of Dockworkers
We talk a lot about logistics on this show – the industries, like Amazon or FedEx, that have made fortunes managing the movement of goods from one place to another. Logistics companies undergird the g...
7 Maj 201946min
Bernice Yeung on The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers
The Me Too movement has brought much needed attention to sexual violence and harassment both in and outside the workplace. It has challenged patriarchal norms and practices and illuminated entrenched ...
13 Apr 201953min
Juan De Lara on Logistics and Urban Space
Amazon's withdrawal from New York City has sparked big conversations about companies' impact on urban space, but less attention has been paid to the fact that, as logistics companies, corporations lik...
6 Mars 201940min
Randy Shaw on the Housing Affordability Crisis
In major cities across the country, skyrocketing rents and housing prices have pushed out workers and everyday people who are no longer able to afford the cost of living. In Los Angeles, this has led ...
6 Jan 201938min
Gavin Benke on Enron and the Neoliberal Era
Gavin Benke on Enron and the Neoliberal Era Frauds. Grifts. Swindles. Scams. These are hardly new things when it comes to the history of capitalism. But that doesn't mean they each one don't reflect...
7 Dec 201847min
Louis Hyman on the Rise of the Gig Economy
We tend to think about the "gig economy" as a new development - brought into being by Uber and our smartphones. But Louis Hyman shows us the deep roots of casualized and contract labor, tracing the ce...
3 Nov 201842min
