Macrodose
By Planet B Productions
MacrodoseJun 03, 2024
Election Economics: NHS in Crisis w/ Dr Julia Grace Patterson
Welcome to Election Economics, a Macrodose bonus series that we’re running in the lead up to the UK general election on July 4th.
Over the coming weeks James Meadway will be joined by a selection of economists, politicians and commentators to unpack what the campaigns’ policies and pledges mean for people in Britain.
Today we’re delighted to be joined by Dr Julia Grace Patterson. Dr Patterson is the founder and chief executive of Every Doctor UK, a doctor-led campaigning organisation fighting to save the NHS. She is also a columnist at the Canary, and the author of Critical: Why the NHS is being Betrayed and how We can Fight for it.
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Election Economics w/ Grace Blakeley
Welcome to Election Economics, a Macrodose bonus series that we’re running in the lead up to the UK general election on July 4th.
Over the coming weeks James Meadway will be joined by a selection of economists, politicians and commentators to unpack what the campaigns’ policies and pledges mean for people in Britain.
Today we're joined by economist and author Grace Blakeley, whose new book Vulture Capitalism explores the mystifying logic that underpin our current economic system.
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Election Circus
On this week’s Macrodose James Meadway takes a close look at a seemingly inevitable win for Labour in the upcoming UK general election - what will this actually mean over the next 5 years (1:34)?
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EXTRA: The Poverty of Growth w/ Olivier De Schutter
On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Olivier De Schutter to discuss his new book The Poverty of Growth - a concise and well evidenced argument against the idea that economic growth is the route out of poverty.
Olivier was UN Special Rapporteur on The Right to Food, a member of the UN Comity on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and is an internationally recognised expert on food systems, poverty and international law.
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Macrodose x Verso x The Dig LIVE Podcast
On July 26th Macrodose is partnering with Verso Books and the Dig podcast for a special live event over at the Union Chapel in Islington, London.
Host Dalia Gebrial will be joined by political scientist Thea Riofrancos, climate justice activist Asad Rehman and anthropologist Jason Hickel, to talk about all things economic, from the era of neoliberalism to green colonialism, and the decline of the unipolar world.
And we'll be followed by a live cross-over recording of the Dig and Verso podcasts, where hosts Eleanor Penny and Daniel Denvir will be in conversation with academic and author Laleh Khalili and MP Jeremy Corbyn.
https://unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-on/versothe-dig-live-podcast-with-jeremy-corbyn-laleh-khalili
Rishi’s Economic Miracle?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: today’s UK inflation figures - what can we expect and do the numbers tell the full story (1:32) and a listener question - why has Zimbabwe decided to back its currency using gold (10:18)?
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Amazon vs. Workers w/ Polly Smythe
On this week’s Macrodose, Polly Smythe takes a look at an upcoming vote at an Amazon Warehouse on whether to unionise. If the workers vote yes, then for the first time in the UK Amazon will be forced to recognise a trade union.
What are workers at the Coventry site up against? Why is Amazon such a crucial battleground for the future of the labour movement? And what lessons can we learn from this latest organising attempt?
Polly Smythe is an industrial correspondent at Novara Media, where I spend my time covering everything to do with trade unions, work, and strikes.
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Labour Ditches New Deal for Workers
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: another Labour Party U-Turn as Keir Starmer guts the “New Deal for Workers” (1:47), and a proposed global mining merger - how is the climate crisis reshaping the largest institutions of capitalism (10:47)?
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How Climate Change is Killing Workers
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: a warning from the world bank that inflation could start rising again this year (0:46), a new report showing that climate change is creating serious health hazards for 70% of the world's workers (6:21) and as climate-flation hits the front pages of 2 major papers this week - has public awareness hit a tipping point (12:33)?
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ROUNDTABLE: A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things (Revisited)
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On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore for a revisit of their book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: a guide to capitalism, nature and the future of the planet. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology and leads the World-Ecology Research Collective. Grab you copy of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things here www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things A massive thank you to all of our existing Patreon subscribers, your support keeps the show running and we are very grateful. If you have the means and enjoy our work, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today. Find our socials, newsletter and more here: linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast We want to hear from you! Leave a comment or get in touch at macrodose@planetbproductions.co.uk For more about the work we do at Planet B Productions, go to planetbproductions.co.uk
An Uninsurable World
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down new research that shows the world will lose one fifth of its income to climate change over the next 25 years (1:45), the skyrocketing price of insurance in the UK (7:21) and some allegedly good news - the London stock exchange hits a record high (14:56).
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A Short History of Burnout w/ Hannah Proctor
This week on Macrodose Hannah Proctor leads us on an exploration of burnout. What are the origins of the term, and how can political movements and people on the frontline endure in the face of defeat.
Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. Find her new book “Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat” here: tinyurl.com/ye33zecw
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The Future of Nuclear Power
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down a new report over in the US which lays out the climate risks to nuclear power (0:44), a look at how the scarcity of data will squash the dreams of machine learning (9:55) and a new campaign for Basic Income for Farmers (15:50).
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AI Colonialism
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Britain's ever failing water system and how to fix it (0:53), how AI is feeding colonial forms of exploitation (7:41) and climateflation - how new research shows prices are only likely to increase (14:25).
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ROUNDTABLE: The Economics of The Green Transition
On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Brett Christophers and Adrienne Buller to discuss the economics of the green energy transition, asking how we could finance it and what’s stopping us? They talked “market failures”, “maladaptation” and the future of economics: growth and degrowth.
Brett Christophers is professor of human geography at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research. Grab his latest book ‘The Price is Wrong: Why capitalism won’t save the planet’ here: tinyurl.com/4p6tpuh3
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Rachel Reeves and the Future of British Economics
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Mais Lecture and what it tells us about a future Labour government (0:40) and a listener question - how do we stop the wealthy holding governments hostage by threatening to take their money out of the country (9:34)?
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How Oil Works
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Britain’s Risotto Crisis (1:28), and a listener question - how does the global market for fossil fuels actually work (7:35)?
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Should the Bank of England be Independent?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of an economic bounce-back in the United States and what’s driving it (0:47), how interest rates in the Global North helping to fuel a “silent debt crisis” in the Global South (6:41), and a listener question - should the Bank of England really be independent of government (15:07)?
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Budget Reaction Special w/ Stella Tsantekidou
On this week’s Macrodose, BUDGET SPECIAL! James Meadway is joined by Stella Tsantekidou to give an immediate reaction to today's budget announcement by UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
Stella Tsantekidou is a former Labour Party advisor and head of policy for the criminal justice charity, Catch-22.
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Why Your Easter Egg is Smaller This Year
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down chocflation - why Easter Egg prices are so high (2:07), how the world is becoming uninsurable as climate change meets capitalism (8.40) and a listener question - how do the Office for Budget Responsibility make their economic forecasts (15:02)?
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The Truth about Britain’s Recession
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the real meaning of the news that the UK has entered a recession (0:51), the geopolitical consequences of the vast amount of energy required to run the digital economy (8:36) and the apparent return of inflation (13:31).
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ROUNDTABLE: Anarcho-Capitalism and the Future of Money
Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe who is joined by two thinkers whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and its discontents, cryptocurrency, conspiracy theories, and so much more have overlapping and fascinating insights for how we see the political world today.
Quinn Slobodian's most recent book is Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy published by Metropolitan Books in the US, Penguin in the UK and elsewhere. He is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, contributing writer to New Statesman, co-editor of Contemporary European History and co-director of the History and Political Economy Project.
Brett Scott is a journalist, campaigner, monetary anthropologist and former financial broker. He’s the author of Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets (Penguin: 2022), and The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance (Pluto Press: 2013). He writes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter at brettscott.substack.com.
Me: sarahljaffe.comWork Won't Love You Back
Brett Scott: Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets
Going cashlessThe War on Cash (review of Cloudmoney)
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance
Quinn Slobodian: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy
Book excerpt: Inside Silicon Valley’s dream of capitalism untethered from democracyMonster of the Mainstream (on Javier Milei)
Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol (With William Callison)
The Wonderful Death of a StateEverything You Thought About Free Trade Is WrongGlobalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Things We Mentioned:
Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social ConservatismThe Anarchists series
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A Devastating Labour U-turn
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the Labour Party abandoning their £28bn green investment pledge (2:14), the farmers' protests across Europe (10:33) and a listener question - why are supermarkets so keen on us using their loyalty cards (17:42)?
Check out EnBloc at enbloc.uk
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Tides of Trade
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economic consequences of the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea to global trade (1:46) and a recent report from the New York Times suggesting the Biden administration in the US is looking to take action on profiteering by US food suppliers (10:20).
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Against Landlords w/ Nick Bano
On this week’s Macrodose Nick Bano gives an alternative perspective on the housing crisis. Throwing out the usual talk of supply, demand, and financialisation, and instead focusing on the underlying dynamic that is actually responsible for producing property values - the relationship between landlords and tenants.
Nick is a writer and a Barrister who specialises in representing homeless people, residential occupiers, and destitute and migrant households. His debut book Against Landlords: How to solve the housing crisis is set to be published at the end of March 2024. Pre-order your copy here tinyurl.com/yau2us7v
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ROUNDTABLE: The Political Economy of Palestine
Welcome to this very first episode of Macrodose Roundtable, the show where we go in depth with some of the brightest minds from the world of economics and ecology. Macrodose roundtables are an opportunity to expand some of the ideas introduced in our main show, in a longer form, multi-guest format.
Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe and looks at the political economy of Palestine. We situate Palestine in the wider context of the global economy, and hear what daily life looks like for Palestinian people: their work, their access or lack thereof to goods and services, and places to live or to be safe. We also speak about the economic pressures that people around the world have used to try to bring justice for the Palestinian people.
Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His work focuses on privatisation, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank and he is the author of Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, published by Duke University Press in 2021.
Laleh Khalili is a professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020) and her new little book, the Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack Books 2024) is being released in February.
Sarah: sarahljaffe.com
Belabored: General Strike in Palestine with Riya Al-Sanah
Combined and Uneven Catastrophe: an interview with Kareem Rabie at the Baffler
On Israel's Settler-Democratic Reform, Kareem Rabie and Nicola Perugini
Laleh: Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
“To Reach Across Boundaries": Laleh Khalili Talks Solidarity and Global Trade, at Public Books
Books/Articles We Mentioned:
Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini
The Human Right to Dominate by Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon
The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development by Sara Roy
Sara Roy at the Journal for Palestine Studies
The Long War on Gaza, by Sara Roy at the New York Review of Books
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia
The Era of Cloud Capital w/ Yanis Varoufakis
On this week’s Macrodose Yanis Varoufakis provides the compelling argument that capitalism has been killed and replaced by a new economic system - Technofeudalism.
Yanis is an economist, politician, formerly Greece’s finance minister and author of several books, including most recently Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism. You can grab a copy via our reading list linked below.
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Pharmanomics w/ Nick Dearden
On this week’s Macrodose Nick Dearden takes us on a deep dive into the the history of the pharmaceutical industry - asking how it became the leviathan it is today, why it has been able to assert its unchecked geopolitical influence across the world, and whether there is anything that can be done to loosen its grip on global health.
Nick is the director of Global Justice Now, and a campaigner on issues of Global Justice for over two decades. He is also author of “Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health”, published by Verso Books in October last year. Grab your copy here: tinyurl.com/5a8am2zx
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The Making of Uber w/ Dalia Gebrial
On this week’s Macrodose Dalia Gebrial takes us on a deep dive into the gig economy (1:54). What are the real costs of the platform promise? Who is losing out, why and how? And what explains its meteoric rise?
Dalia Gebrial is lecturer at King's College London and co-host of Novara Live at Novara Media. Her research focuses on race, work and technology.
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Debt, Tomatoes and the Carbon Cost of Crypto
On this week’s Macrodose we bring you our second and final holiday special before we return to the regular show next week. We’ve picked 3 more of our favourite stories from the last year. First, should we worry about government debt (0:44)? Second, is Brexit to blame for food shortages (7:37)? And finally a look at the real environmental cost of cryptocurrencies (14:28).
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Economics Fundamentals
On this week’s Macrodose we bring you a selection of our favourite stories of the last year. First, from “planetary boundaries” to doughnut economics - are there quantifiable limits to our exploitation of nature (0:40), next Greedflation - what is it and what are the mainstream missing (7:09) and finally a listener question - Universal Basic Income vs Universal Basic Services (14:11).
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Ghosts of COP Past, Present and Future w/ Asad Rehman
On this week’s Macrodose, Asad Rehman takes us on a journey through COPs past (1:28), present (8:07) and future (14:13).
Asad has attended a staggering 15 COPs and was in attendance this year at COP28, helping coordinate the global climate justice movements. He is also the Director of War on Want, a London based charity challenging the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice through partnership with social movements in the UK, and across the Global South.
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How Interest Hikes Fuel Climate Change
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how interest rates have been impacting the UK economy (1:10), the growing risks of climate change to global health (10:08) and the decision to host COP in Azerbaijan next year (14:11).
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COP Special
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the new Loss and Damage Fund agreed at this year’s COP (0:42), why the phasing out of fossil fuels being met with so much resistance (7:59) and a response to some listener criticism on our episode The EV Myth (15:05).
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The Economics of Argentina’s New President
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: what the victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei means for Argentina and the world (1:19) and how climate change is driving inflation and directly squeezing British households (9:49).
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[LIVE] Where next for the UK economy?
Macrodose is turning 1! To celebrate we hosted our first Macrodose live event. In this panel discussion James Meadway is joined by Labour MP Nadia Whittome, Senior Fellow at the Social Market Foundation Shreya Nanda and author/Guardian columnist Owen Jones to discuss: where next for the UK economy?
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Autumn Statement Special w/ Grace Blakeley
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway is joined by Grace Blakely to discuss today’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt - what this all means for you, and where next for the economy?
Grace is an economist and author of the forthcoming book Vulture Capitalism: corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts and the death of freedom, which you can pre-order from your favourite bookshop or via this link tinyurl.com/ype3mzcs
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The EV Myth
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: why EVs are not the answer to climate breakdown (0:40) and a surprising success story around price controls in Switzerland (6:09).
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Arctic Resource Wars
Arctic rolls, not Arctic resource conflicts!
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how the race for Arctic resources is reshaping global capitalism (0:44) and a new report on the decrepit state of Britain’s public services (7:52).
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Who wins from war?
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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: leaked transcripts that show how big arms manufacturers are profiteering from Israel's war on Palestine (0:39), and why the American economy growing so much faster than Europe and the UK (6:39).
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Water
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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how China’s semiconductor industry is driving regional water shortages (1:50), what we can learn from Labour’s 2019 election defeat about the roadblocks to nationalisation (10:33), and an exciting project to repurpose Britain’s abandoned coal mines (19:56).
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UNLOCKED: Why you should care about semiconductors w/ Richard Jones
MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics.
Our guest today is Richard Jones. Richard is Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at the University of Manchester. His blog ’Soft Machines’ provides excellent insight into nanotechnology, and the UK government's wider science and technology policies.
In this interview we talked specifically about semiconductors, which are fuelling resource conflicts and trade wars around the world. What is a semiconductor? Why should we care about them? And how are they shaping global economic trends?
Israel/Palestine
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway takes a look at the devastating events in Israel and Palestine. James examines the wider geopolitical and economic forces behind the conflict in the Middle East (2:09), before taking a look further afield to consider the potential wider economic fallout (9:31).
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Show update + Macrodose LIVE!
Macrodose LIVE is coming soon! Thursday, November 16th (18:30) at Space4, Finsbury Park, London to be exact...
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Conference Debrief w/ Owen Jones
On this week’s Macrodose, Owen Jones debriefs us on the Labour and Conservative party conferences after attending both in the last week. He explores how the Tory Conference might represent a scary swing to the far right (1:04) and asks what can we actually expect from Starmerism with Labour seemingly on the precipice of government and promising to fight the next election on the economy (10:48)?
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Monopoly Capitalism w/ Níall Glynn
On this week’s Macrodose, Níall Glynn leads a deep dive into monopoly capitalism - untangling the web of concentrated power that touches every corner of our lives (0:59).
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UNLOCKED: Understanding Inflation w/ Isabella Weber
Our guest today is Isabella Weber. Isabella is an economist working on inflation, China, global trade and the history of economic thought. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Berggruen Fellow, and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University.
In this interview we discussed her most recent research into the causes of inflation. Greedflation? Excuse-flation? Sellers' inflation? What does it all mean, and are the mainstream starting to change their tune?
Hot Labour Autumn for the UAW w/ Sarah Jaffe
On this week’s Macrodose, Sarah Jaffe digs deeper into the United Auto Workers strike (1:01) and a listener question - how can care and teaching jobs challenge our assumptions about trade union struggles (15:13)?
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Sarah’s list of further reading:
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/shawn-fain-uaw-big-three-automakers-thirty-two-hour-workweek
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-07-auto-workers-contract-talks-stellantis-threatens-move-south/
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ultium-cells-uaw-gm-ford-stellantis-electric-vehicles
https://newrepublic.com/article/175507/uaw-electric-vehicles-strike-workers
https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ultium-White-Paper.pdf
https://newrepublic.com/article/154129/general-motors-plant-closed-lordstown-ohio-road-not-taken
https://newrepublic.com/article/155466/lordstown-ohio-general-motors-strike-contract-vote
https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/minor-victories-labor-exploitation-and-the-affirmation-trap
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/back-in-action-report-on-the-us-labour-movement/
https://prospect.org/labor/workers-rally-against-trumps-broken-promises/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/joe-biden-is-about-to-go-where-no-president-has-gone-before/
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/24/business/auto-workers-strike-job-security/index.html
15 years on from 2008
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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the United Auto Workers strike that’s got the US establishment worried (1:15), the new era of capitalism: 15 years on from the 2008 financial crash (7:23) and a listener question - why is economic inactivity on the rise in the UK (12:10)?
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Disaster for UK green energy plans
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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: Britain's failed offshore wind auction (0:46), Panama Canal drying up (7:00) and a listener question: cost-free reforms vs redistributive policies - could Starmer’s tinkering actually change things (14:37)?
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