Belabored Podcast #11: Hardhats and Hippies

Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Subscribe and rate on iTunes here. Tweet at @dissentmag with #belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Belabored is produced by Natasha Lewis. This week’s Belabored podcast opens with a rundown of recent good and bad news for labor: a worker takeover of public broadcasting in Greece; the passage of a new law protecting New York child models; McDonald’s forcing debit cards on its employees; and a hunger strike in protest of Philadelphia school cuts and layoffs. Then they interview sociologist Penny Lewis on her new book Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam War as Myth and Memory, and how we still misunderstand the relationship between labor, the left, and the working class. Some links for those following along at home: Penny Lewis’ book Ned Resnikoff on the Philly hunger strike Anna Lekas Miller on the Greece radio takeover Sarah on McDonalds’s debit cards   The stories we wish we’d written: Bryce Covert, Think Progress: “What Those Mocking Miss Utah Miss About the Gender Wage Gap” Tim Wu, The New Republic: “The Right to Evade Regulation: How Corporations Hijacked the First Amendment”   The post Belabored Podcast #11: Hardhats and Hippies appeared first on Dissent Magazine.