Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2014

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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 9:00am to 10:00am
4-Hour Work Day, Direct Action Gets The Goods, Utopianism, Political Commentary by Robin Williams

Joe Clement hosts this Labor Day special and we hear:
  • Joe talks with Nathan Schneider about "Who Stole the Four Hour Work-Day?", an article he wrote for Vice magazine about goals that drove the labor movement in its heyday, including the Industrial Workers of the World's bold campaign of "4 hour day, 4 day work week with no cut in pay", as well as the forces that undermined them in the mid 20th century.
  • Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond talk about the meaning of labor day, union organizing, and direct action vs. union bureacracy by way of a discussion of Jane McAlevey's "Raising Expectations, Raising Hell: my decade fighting for the labor movement".
  • Joe talks with Kathi Weeks about utopianism over the last hundred years. They consider opposition to utopianism, varieties of utopian expression, and even a case for a renewed engagement with utopian thought today. Kathi Weeks is a professor of Women's Studies at Duke University and is the author of "The Problem With Work: marxism, feminism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries"
  • Political Commentary and Soviet Suppressions from the late Robin Williams.
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