Tag Archives: service sector

Interchange – The Automation Ruse, Part One: Jason E. Smith on Economic Stagnation

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:05 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ll open with “Powerhouse” performed here by Don Byron off of Bug Music from 1996. Composed by Raymond Scott in 1937, “Powerhouse” was featured in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons and perhaps best known for its use in the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon “Baby Bottleneck” which stars …

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Interchange – At Your Service: Organizing in the Service Economy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:39 — 80.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a “repackaging” of a program from August 2015 about service sector workers and the future of unions with a focus on the question can there be a labor movement with any strength in the service sector? Perhaps that movement needs to find new forms …

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