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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More“Freeze Tag” captures a momentous day: November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and what hearing that news was like for a ten year old girl in Catholic School. Everyone my age and older has an assassination story. “Where were you? What were …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs we face a pandemic that has created a kind of general strike we need to think about organizing our lives differently. Today’s Interchange offers a class perspective to stand against the capitalism that offers only destruction for so many of us. *** We begin with exploitation …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:44 — 46.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRecently a criminal investigation into fraud in the testing regimes for college entry revealed that wealthy people buy advantages; many of us surely simply shrugged. What’s new? Folks with money look to buy the path they and their children tread. We seem to accept this even if …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWith Covington Catholic High School students offering a fresh examples of the embodied ideologies of Capitalism like racism, patriarchy and ecological destruction – we turn to theories of working class solidarity. If we want a social system that is not alienating—with meaningful labor, with equality in all …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:20 — 52.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom May 31 to June 3, the Working Class Studies Association held their annual conference at Indiana University. Each day, there were several rounds of panels and speakers. On June 2, one of the panels focused on Working Class deindustrialization in the UK. The panelists were Tim …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:30 — 53.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom May 31 to June 3, the Working Class Studies Association held their annual conference at Indiana University. Each day, there were several rounds of panels and speakers. On June 3, one of the panels focused on downward mobility and the people it most affects. Panelists included …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:51 — 53.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom May 31 to June 3, the Working Class Studies Association held their annual conference at Indiana University. Each day, there were several rounds of panels and speakers. On June 2, keynote speaker Sara Goldrick-Rab detailed her research into why so many students are forced to drop …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:38 — 52.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom May 31 to June 3, the Working Class Studies Association held their annual conference at Indiana University. Each day, there were several rounds of panels and speakers. On June 1, opening plenary speaker Josh Pacewics placed the American populist moment in a historical and social context, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:23 — 52.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom May 31 to June 3, the Working Class Studies Association held their annual conference at Indiana University. Each day, there were several rounds of panels and speakers. On June 3, the closing plenary speaker Kim Moody spoke to the present and possible futures of labor movement …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:34 — 52.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom May 31 to June 3, the Working Class Studies Association held their annual conference at Indiana University. Each day, there were several rounds of panels and speakers. On June 1, one of the panels focused on class and labor issues in the American Rust Belt. Panelists …