Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNaomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Episode 147
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Robert Bruno, "What Work Is" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 350
Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as Director of the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, "Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Episode 50
Co-edited by Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Through Bars: S…
2 years, 5 months ago
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 180
The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address…
2 years, 5 months ago
José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 150
For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health o…
2 years, 5 months ago
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Episode 216
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Ni…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 363
Our privacy is besieged by tech companies.
Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and cou…
2 years, 6 months ago
Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 347
Sociologist Neil M. Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
In 2022…
2 years, 6 months ago
Why, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
Episode 101
University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox *01 delves into some of the popular wisdom surrounding marriage and tells us what the data has to say:…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jeffrey Benson, "Hacking School Discipline Together" (Times Ten Publications, 2024)
Episode 229
Jeffrey Benson’s Hacking School Discipline Together (Times Ten Publications, 2024) follows in footsteps first hacked out by Weinstein and Maynard in …
2 years, 6 months ago