Organizing Work
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 25 ratingsA podcast about workplace organizing and union strategy, produced by Organizing Work, and hosted on the website Organizing Work
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Episodes
Wobcast 9: William Z Foster
June 28, 2022 02:23 - 43 minutes - 40 MBNick Driedger discusses the life and ideas of William Z. Foster, taking a critical look at his ideas about “boring from within” and the “militant minority” as it relates to union strategies.
Wobcast 8 – Class Struggle Unionism
January 07, 2022 19:51 - 50 minutes - 27.1 MBIn the latest episode of the Organizing Work podcast, a joint episode with Laborwave Radio, Marianne Garneau and Alex Riccio talk to Joe Burns about his new book, Class Struggle Unionism.
Wobcast 7 – Peter Cole
December 10, 2020 13:13 - 1 hour - 19.1 MBMarianne Garneau interviews Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, now out in its second edition from PM Press.
Wobcast #7 – Peter Cole
December 10, 2020 13:13 - 1 hour - 19.1 MBMarianne Garneau interviews Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, now out in its second edition from PM Press.
Wobcast #6: Talking Politics
October 09, 2020 20:39 - 42 minutes - 9.66 MBIn the sixth episode of our podcast, site publisher Garneau and contributing editor Nick Driedger talk about politics: what it is, whether workplace organizing is political, and where working class power lies.
Wobcast #5 – Adventures in Leftist Leadership on the Job
July 07, 2020 11:30 - 1 hour - 15.4 MBIn our fifth Organizing Work podcast, site publisher Marianne Garneau and regular contributor MK Lees talk about three recent articles addressing the left's role in workplace organizing -- and the massive reaction online
Wobcast #4: Crises, elections, and working class power
April 15, 2020 21:00 - 40.5 MBIn the fourth episode of the Organizing Work podcast, Nick Driedger and Marianne Garneau talk about the coronavirus crisis, the defeat of Bernie Sanders, and what both mean for the labor movement and for the left
Wobcast #3: Organizing Reproductive Work
April 29, 2019 16:05 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBIn the third episode of our podcast, host Rhiannon speaks to Katia Roscov, an early childhood educator, about reproductive labor, such as housework and child care. They note that sometimes it is paid and sometimes unpaid, but it always reflects a gender dynamic in society. more »
Wobcast #2: Proof of Concept
January 17, 2019 14:30 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBIn the second episode of our podcast, Marianne Garneau argues that the Stardust campaign in NYC is the “proof of concept” of the solidarity unionism model developed by the IWW. Find us on Stitcher and iTunes. RSS feed here. Hear episode one of our podcast more »
Wobcast #1: Not The Standard Playbook
November 01, 2018 22:57 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBIntroducing Wobcast! This is a podcast produced out of the Edmonton branch of the IWW. It is about workplace organizing, with a focus on solidarity unionism. In this first episode, Nick Driedger explains the difference between solidarity unionism and “workplace contractualism” — the mainstream approach more »