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Company Unions and Why Voters Don’t Care about Policy: An Interview with Matt Bruenig

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 14

February 11, 2022 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

The patreon page for 3Ps is here: https://www.patreon.com/peoplespolicyproject Unproductive Labor · Company Unions and Why Voters Don’t Care about Policy: An Interview with Matt Bruenig You can find Matt’s article on the Teamwork Bill here: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/02/07/whats-the-point-of-the-rubio-company-union-bill/ Teamwork Bill: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/2/rubio-banks-introduce-pro-worker-labor-reform-bill Marco Rubio in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/help-working-class-voters-us-must-value-work/578032/

Company Unions and Why Voters Don’t Care about Policy: An Interview with Matt Bruenig

Constitutional Politics

Chile Tries to Write a New Constitution

Progressives in the nation’s Constitutional Convention see an opportunity for creating a more just society

October 13, 2021 • by Jennifer M. Piscopo

In a national referendum held on October 25, 2020, nearly 80 percent of Chileans agreed that the country should have a new constitution, to be written at a convention attended by specially elected delegates. The vote was the climactic result of weeks of paralyzing demonstrations in 2019, as students, feminists, workers, Indigenous peoples, pensioners, and thousands of others had taken to the streets to protest economic and social injustice. With resounding majorities choosing change, Chileans ...

Feminism

How Black Women Fight for Our Democracy

A conversation about Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

January 17, 2021 • by Martha S. Jones and Claire Potter

A legal and cultural historian, Martha Jones has dedicated herself to telling the story of how Black Americans have shaped American democracy, even – or especially – when they were formally excluded from the democratic process itself. Jones’s most recent contribution is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and ...