Belabored Podcast #31: Relief Work

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, Sarah and Michelle try to answer some tough questions: What’s happening to academic labor? Should professors’ speech be protected? What is lost when human interactions take place via video screen? What’s labor’s role in disaster relief? What happens when formerly incarcerated people can’t get jobs? What are clothes? (Seriously.) Featuring an interview with Bonnie Castillo on the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan and the last forty years of labor history in two and a half minutes. (Really.) Links for Those Following Along at Home: All in a Day’s Work: Steelworkers’ Case Highlights Shifting American Workday What are Clothes? Asks Most Delightful Supreme Court Argument in History I can’t do my job through a video screen Classroom Confidential: Should professors have any expectation of email privacy?  Educators Wary of Tech Fixes for College Affordability Crisis OSHA Plans to Make Workplace Safety Reports Public Study: Immigrant construction workers more likely to die on the job in NYC National Nurses Mobilize for Philippines Relief Effort Argh! We Wish We’d Written That: Michelle: Kai Wright, “Boxed In: How a Criminal Record Keeps You Unemployed for Life” Sarah: Harold Meyerson, “The 40-Year Slump“ The post Belabored Podcast #31: Relief Work appeared first on Dissent Magazine.