#9: Labor Under Capitalism
from The Entry Level Left Podcast Hosted by The Entry Level Left
Listen, support, and interact: https://linktr.ee/theentrylevelleft 1:05: What are the essential processes of an economy? 2:15: What is essential to production in an economy? 4:23: What are 3 types of values associated with economic production? 10:23: What is Marx’s law of value or the labor theory of value? 18:55: What is “the tendency of the rate of profit to fall?” 25:15: What is a labor union? 28:45: Delta Airlines’ anti-Union propaganda https://lat.ms/2KpqXfy 29:50: Unionized workers tend to make more money https://cnnmon.ie/2MtBUiN 33:00: What is the purpose of a labor union? 33:26: What is a strike? 36:29: The UPS strike of 1997 https://bit.ly/2HTwEAI 37:00: What is a scab? 38:30: How do scabs undermine labor organizing? 41:55: What are the strengths and weaknesses of unions? 55:15: What were some major victories for labor in the 19th century? 56:50: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 https://bit.ly/2xkInUp 1:05:00 What role has the left played in labor organizing in the U.S? 1:06:50: The Taft-Hartley Act https://bit.ly/2wDgiWe 1:10:30: Organizing a union in your workplace: https://bit.ly/2taxsZH Music produced by @southpointe__ on Instagram.
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