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Essential Workers and Labor Activism During the Pandemic: An Interview with Jamie McCallum

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 20

January 26, 2023 • by Pete Sinnott and Luke Mergner

I talk to sociologist Jamie McCallum about his new book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice...

Essential Workers and Labor Activism During the Pandemic: An Interview with Jamie McCallum

Podcast

We’ll Always Need to Work: An Interview with Alex Gourevitch

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 19

January 12, 2023 • by Pete Sinnott and Luke Mergner

What the anti-work and post-work crowd get wrong in their thinking about work and the future....

We’ll Always Need to Work: An Interview with Alex Gourevitch

Podcast

The Origins of Wage Labor

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 6

November 5, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

Unproductive Labor · Episode 6: The Origins of Wage Labor What We Talked About John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” James Livingston, No More Work Ann Kussmaul, Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England Joyce Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England Joan Thirsk, Agrarian History of England The Natural John Denver, “Thank God I’m ...

Labor

In Honor of Essential Workers

Take a minute on this Labor Day to think about a future for labor beyond Trump

September 3, 2020 • by Helaine Olen

----------- This is our fourth Labor Day weekend in Trump’s America. In no way, can we say it is a good year for American workers. We plunged from record employment to near Great Depression levels of unemployment within a matter of weeks, as the nation all but shut down in response ...