Ep: 4-72 Working People with Maximillian and Zac Alvarez
Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics
English - December 23, 2018 14:10 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsNews Society & Culture politics world geo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today we speak to Maximillian Alvarez is a dual-PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, a columnist for The Baffler magazine, and host of the podcast Working People and his brother Zachary Alvarez who is a writer and economist from the University of Chicago.
The GM layoffs now (as part of a 30-year process of de-industrialization) show that labor's concessionary bargaining model of negotiating higher wages has shown its insufficiency. Labor should have stuck with a more militant, postwar vision of negotiating shared ownership of the means of production.
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