Labor

Kathi Weeks: The Problem With Work

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Kathi Weeks about her book "The Problem with Work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries". They discuss the work ethic and why it promises more than it delivers. They also consider the tradition of antiwork politics and how fe... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 26, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about Wal-Mart and the workers organizing against it on Black Friday. Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips talking & singing about blaming & dumping the bosses. The movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss... Read more

Utah Philips: Dump the Bosses

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement introduces Utah Phillips explaining the value of knowing clearly who deserves blame, and then performing the Wobbly song "Dump the Bosses Off Our Backs." Read more

Lichtenstein on Walmart Activism

Airs at: Mon, 11/26/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business and editor of Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Cen... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 19th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Alan Wieder hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Alan call for a rethinking of Thanksgiving and what we teach our children about it Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about Palestine and Israel Larry Bowlden reviews Charity Shumway's "10 Girls to W... Read more

European Strike Update

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement remarks briefly on the massively coordinated strikes in Europe and comments on their meaning. He quotes or mentions material from Counterfire.org, Libcom.org, The Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. Read more

Yasmin Nair beyond Illegal vs. Undocumented

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about immigrants-rights rhetoric and how certain strategies meant to insulate them from stereotypes and "include" may shutter the actual situation of undocument workers. She argues that the "undocumented not afraid" movement started as a... Read more

Postal Workers' Action

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The Old Mole's Iven Hale talks with postal worker Willie Groschelle of the Letter Carriers' Union about value of the US Postal Service and the forces of privatization that are threatening to destroy it. Read more

Roundtable Discussion on Electoral Politics

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2012 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick, Alan Wieder and Frann Michel talk about the political economy of electoral politics and what that means for left strategy. They keep coming back to popular mobilization and how electoral politics may or may not fit into that. Read more