Economic Update
The Ripple Effects of Labor's 2023 Rise
Sendetermin 26.12.2023 09:30 bis 10:00
In this, the last episode of Economic Update for the year, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Yale graduate & professional students’ union’s recent victory, how the writers/actors strike impacted the labor movement with a show of solidarity, Starbucks loses fight with its workers’ unionization, the National Institutes of Health votes to unionize and fight legal barriers to unionization, the British unions fighting its Conservative gov't, and the turning of the U.S. Labor Movement from reform vs revolution to reform + revolution.
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Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne).
Wolff has published many books and articles, both scholarly and popular. Most recently, in 2012, he published the books Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Haymarket Books) and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press). He writes regularly for Truthout.org.
He has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show, Up With Chris Hayes, Bill Maher’s Real Time, RT-TV, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, Thom Hartman, National Public Radio, Alternative Radio, and many other radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad. The New York Times Magazine named him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.”
Email: programmrat@helsinki.at
Website: http://www.democracyatwork.info/