Joining us this week to talk about the decline of pensions and our social safety net is Michael McCarthy, assistant professor of sociology at Marquette University. We discuss a recent study that found a large number of millennials are relying on socialism for their retirement needs. We then move on to a discussion about the history of pensions covered in Michael's book, Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100439360.

Find some of Michael's writings here:

-"Worked to Death," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/retirement-social-security-pensions-welfare-state-workers

-Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal (2017): https://www.amazon.com/Dismantling-Solidarity-Capitalist-Politics-American/dp/1501713175

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