Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

October 25, 2018 Is the Economy Blowing Bubbles? and Rail Workers Uniting
We’ll ask economist Richard Wolff how the economy is doing. Is it blowing bubbles? Then railway workers belong to a bunch of different unions. Their disunity costs them at the […]
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1 hr 2 min
October 25, 2018 Is the Economy Blowing Bubbles? and Rail Workers Uniting
We’ll ask economist Richard Wolff how the economy is doing. Is it blowing bubbles? Then railway workers belong to a bunch of different unions. Their disunity costs them at the bargaining table. Now there’s a movement of rank and filers …
1 hr 2 min
October 18, 2018 Sweat: A Play about Rustbelt America and The Fall of Wisconsin
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll do two different takes on the undoing of the American working class. First, Sweat: a play about rustbelt America which opens this week […]
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1 hr 1 min
October 18, 2018 Sweat: A Play about Rustbelt America and The Fall of Wisconsin
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll do two different takes on the undoing of the American working class. First, Sweat: a play about rustbelt America which opens this week at the Unicorn; then, The Fall of Wisconsin, a book …
1 hr 1 min
October 11, 2018 Two Books about the Decline of Work and the Middle Class: Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask: Is work as we know it disappearing as the middle class gets squeezed, and then gigged? We talk to two authors […]
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1 hr
October 11, 2018 Two Books about the Decline of Work and the Middle Class: Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work and Squeezed: Why Our Families C
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask: Is work as we know it disappearing as the middle class gets squeezed, and then gigged? We talk to two authors about two books Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America …
1 hr
October 04, 2018 Middle School Kids Talk Labor History and Bill Fletcher has a novel: The Man That Fell from the Sky
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll hear local Kansas City Missouri Middle School students discuss the history of child labor and what it means for students today. Then, […]
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1 hr 1 min
October 04, 2018 Middle School Kids Talk Labor History and Bill Fletcher has a novel: The Man That Fell from the Sky
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll hear local Kansas City Missouri Middle School students discuss the history of child labor and what it means for students today. Then, longtime labor guru Bill Fletcher Jr. talks about his new …
1 hr 1 min
September 27, 2018 Exploring the Psychology of Obedience and Wobs in KC
The workplace depends on the willingness of the worker to follow the rules and comply with orders. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll explore the Psychology of Obedience. […]
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1 hr
September 27, 2018 Exploring the Psychology of Obedience and Wobs in KC
The workplace depends on the willingness of the worker to follow the rules and comply with orders. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll explore the Psychology of Obedience. Then a hundred thirteen years after its founding, the Industrial …
1 hr

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Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City's only program about the workplace. It is produced by and for our working people. We have been agitating on the air since 1989. Find out who is busting unions and…