Belabored Podcast #27: Retail Revolution?

Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Subscribe and rate on iTunes here. Check out the full Belabored archive here. Tweet at @dissentmag with #belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Belabored is produced by Natasha Lewis. This week on Belabored: labor reporter, former Belabored guest, and Dissent contributor Michelle Chen joins Sarah Jaffe to share some of her reporting on the organizing campaign at Guitar Center and the difficulties of organizing large retail chains. Then, the shutdown might be over, but the problems it caused sure aren’t: Sarah and Michelle discuss the disproportionate impact on women, the other subjects pushed to the side when crisis becomes permanent (remember immigration reform?), and more. Plus: kindergarteners taking standardized tests, tenure-track faculty showing solidarity with adjuncts, and why we still don’t “Lean In.” Links for Those Reading Along at Home Michelle on migrant women speaking in D.C. for fair immigration laws Sarah on kindergarteners and standardized tests dBryce Covert and Tara Culp-Ressler on the shutdown and women Rebecca Burns on grad student union rights University of Oregon contract creates solidarity between adjuncts and tenured professors Study shows fast food restaurants depend on public subsidies to support their workers, from Laura Clawson What We Wish We’d Written Michelle: Nancy Fraser, How feminism became capitalism’s handmaiden – and how to reclaim it Sarah: Felix Salmon, The default has already begun The post Belabored Podcast #27: Retail Revolution? appeared first on Dissent Magazine.