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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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LABORWAVE RADIO
Anti-Capitalist Labor Organizing
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Sep 18, 2023
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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Aug 21, 2023
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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Dec 5, 2022
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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Aug 29, 2022
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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Jul 11, 2022
William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Methods and Strategies
Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing.
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Jun 6, 2022
William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination of his Theories and Politics
Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster.
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May 7, 2022
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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Apr 12, 2022
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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Jan 11, 2022
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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Dec 20, 2021
Intersectional Class Struggle
Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building.
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Dec 7, 2021
Organizing the White Lotus
Liz of Rebel Steps joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus!
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Nov 16, 2021
Shop Talk: Are They an Organic Leader or a Bootlicker?
Andrea Haverkamp, a labor organizer based in Seattle, joins the show to talk shop about organic leaders, private vs public sector...
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Nov 1, 2021
State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCME
Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States.
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Oct 18, 2021
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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Oct 4, 2021
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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Sep 20, 2021
Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!
Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast!
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Sep 3, 2021
An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
Eric Laursen joins the show to provide an analysis of the State as opposed to states and compares the modern state to an operating system.
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Aug 22, 2021
EWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
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Aug 9, 2021
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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Jul 26, 2021
Comrades Read "Singlejack Solidarity" by Stan Weir
Stan Weir operated by the creed that one should not "let people feel that their job is to sit back and admire somebody else."
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Jul 12, 2021
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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Jun 28, 2021
Get Rid of No Strike Clauses and Stop Begging
Hamilton Nolan argues that the right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power, and unions need to stop bargaining it away
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Jun 15, 2021
Unionizing "The Office" (US Version) w/ Elizabeth Laycak
Elizabeth Laycak joins the show to discuss how to unionize the Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, PA.
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May 31, 2021
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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May 11, 2021
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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Apr 28, 2021
[Film Review] Lapsis, or Capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme
Comrades Andrea, Kali, Luke, and Nick join the show to discuss the film Lapsis, from writer/director Noah Hutton.
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Apr 11, 2021
Union Shop: Consider a "Salt-free" Meal w/ MK Lees
MK Lees joins Laborwave Radio to discuss the strategy of "salting" a workplace to boost a union campaign.
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Mar 29, 2021
Ep. 2 Comrades Read A Syndicalist View on The Rank and File Strategy w/ Tom Wetzel
Tom Wetzel joins Laborwave Radio to discuss a syndicalist critique of Kim Moody's rank and file strategy.
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Mar 16, 2021
Ep. 1 Comrades Read Kim Moody's Rank and File Strategy
We discuss the "Rank and File Strategy" a popular 30-page pamphlet written by Kim Moody in 2000 for the publication Solidarity.
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Mar 1, 2021
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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Feb 15, 2021
Talking Union Shop: Solidarity Unionism & the IWW w/ the One Big Podcast
A collaboration with One Big Podcast discussing the particulars of solidarity unionism in contrast to business unionism.
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Feb 1, 2021
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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Jan 18, 2021
Organized Labor Shouldn't Expect Much from President Joe Biden w/ Alex Press
Alex Press, labor reporter and staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's union credentials.
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Jan 11, 2021
The Union Busting Playbook & How To Fight It as told by workers at No Evil Foods
Laborwave spoke with workers at No Evil Foods about the company's union busting strategy against an employee organized union campaign.
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Dec 30, 2020
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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Dec 15, 2020
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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Nov 30, 2020
Malls After the Revolution w/ Shawn from Srsly Wrong
After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be about instead.
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Nov 18, 2020
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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Nov 11, 2020
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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Nov 1, 2020
David Graeber: A Celebration & Discussion of Ideas w/ Tony Vogt & Shane Capra
A celebration of the life and ideas of David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.
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Oct 20, 2020
Reflections on Occupy Wall Street w/ Marina Sitrin & Vanessa Zettler
Marina Sitrin and Vanessa Zettler are contributors to the recent title Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis.
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Oct 7, 2020
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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Sep 29, 2020
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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Sep 14, 2020
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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Aug 31, 2020
Identity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Elites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by the same methods that they get control over everything else.
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Aug 25, 2020
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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Aug 18, 2020
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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Aug 11, 2020
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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Aug 4, 2020
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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