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Revaluing the Strike w/ Erik Baker
"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political...
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Premajority Unionism with Eric Dirnbach
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union.
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How to Revive the Labor Movement w/ Marianne Garneau
Back from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor!
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Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act.
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The Long Deep Grudge
Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War.
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Media Strategies for Unions, a Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich
Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power.
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On The Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line.
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Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over with Wobcast!]
Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work.
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Reviving the Strike
Joe Burns joins the show to discuss the role militant traditional labor strikes have in revitalizing the labor movement.
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Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political
Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political.
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A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union Decline
Gabriel Winant joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an expanding framework of labor relations.
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You Say You Want A General Strike?
Marianne Garneau discusses her article in Organizing.Work, "You Say You Want a General Strike?" Re-issued with improved audio quality.
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Shop Floor Organizing at Amazon w/ Amazonians United Chicagoland
Ruby and Zama, workers at Amazon and members of Amazonians United, join the show to discuss their methods of shop floor organizing.
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Union Democracy and Working Class Power Require Deep Organizing w/ Marybeth Seitz-Brown
Marybeth Seitz-Brown joins the show to discuss how deep organizing is necessary for building robust union democracy and working class power.
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Ben Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter Cole
Peter Cole joins the show to discuss the second edition of his book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly published by PM Press
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Work Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe joins Laborwave Radio to discuss her new book, Work Won't Love You Back from Bold Type Books.
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Amazon Capitalism & Organizing the Giant w/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese
Amazon Capitalism embodies all the worst features of exploitation, surveillance, and monopoly. Editors of The Cost of Free Shipping explain.
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The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne Garneau
The IWW is 115 years old! To celebrate we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work organizing within the IWW.
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Ep. 5 Comrades Read Together, No Shortcuts! w/ Andrea, Sarah, & Michael
Our conversation circles largely around the question of, what Marx famously described, "class in itself" vs. "class for itself."
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Class Power on Zero Hours w/ The Angry Workers
We spoke with members of the Angry Workers, a political collective, abouttheir recent PM Press title, "Class Power on Zero Hours"
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A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening Plan
Union demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.
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Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave
To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!
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Ep. 4 Comrades Read Together "If We Can Change the White House, We Can Change the Hog House"
Connecting movement histories to fight against fracture, imposing accountability, and hard questions for the IWW and DSA.
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Ep. 3 Comrades Read Together: No Shortcuts chapters 3 & 4 w/ Ellen Kress & Andrea Haverkamp
Ellen Kress and Andrea Haverkamp talk chapters 3 & 4 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power by Jane McAlevey.
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Ep. 2 Comrades Read Together w/ Nick Driedger: No Shortcuts, But to Where?
Driedger asks the tough questions about the political horizons achievable under a labor relations framework.
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Comrades Read Together- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey
Comradely discussion about the first two chapters of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey.
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Wildcat Strikes at University of California w/ Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips
You can't calculate everything and predict the outcome in advance. You have to experiment and see what's possible for workers.
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Police, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr
As an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.
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Rent Strikes w/ Liza Featherstone & Tenants United Corvallis
Two part episode featuring tenant organizers discussing rent strikes in Oregon, along with a conversation with journalist Liza Featherstone.
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Being Numerous: Non-fascist Life in a Crisis w/ Natasha Lennard
What would it look like if we ushered ourselves through the world and held each other in our porousness, wateriness, our interdependency.
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May Day Amid A Plague w/ Sarah Jaffe
We already know because of the climate catastrophe that we need to radically reshape the economy. Now we've seen that we can.
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Towards a Queer Marxist Future with Holly Lewis
Wherever there are queer people working to eradicate expropriation that's Queer Marxism.
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Boots Riley on Power, Art, and the Radical Dr. King
Even for us as organizers the nature of power under capitalism has been obscured. Power doesn't just get shamed into doing the right thing.
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Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: The Life of Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan
By taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.
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Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production w/ Alex Riccio
Trump’s rise to power represents a battle over utopia where the right-wing has so far proved victorious.
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Graduate Employee Strike at UO and Fighting for Worker Control w/ Lola Loustaunau
The social relations in which we are in need to fundamentally change. The worksite is key not just for better wages but to end exploitation.
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You Say You Want A General Strike? w/ Marianne Garneau
What precisely is a general strike, and do they accomplish the robust social changes proponents imagine?
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Abolition Studies Against Academia w/ Eli Meyerhoff & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
Abolitionist university studies positioned against academia.
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State of Unions after Janus with Bill Fletcher, Jr
We spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr on the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
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Women's Strike, Reconsidered with Marianne Garneau
We spoke with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work, on why for strikes to be effective they must have specific targets tied to...
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Lessons from the Burgerville Workers Union with Shane Burley
We spoke with Shane Burley about his recent piece for Think Progress on BVWU and learned more about how these workers were able to...
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Wages for Housework and #MeToo with Silvia Federici
Autonomist feminist scholar Silvia Federici (Caliban and the Witch)outlines the Wages for Housework campaign and theoretical...
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