A World to Win: Demand a Shorter Working Week w/ Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis
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🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Grace speaks to Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge, authors of Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week. They discuss the centrality of struggles over working time to the history of class struggle, why the shorter working week should be a central demand of labor movements today, and how we need to reimagine work to build a more just and sustainable world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I am Grace Blakely |
| 0:16.4 | bringing you your weekpidos of socialist news, theory and action from around the world. |
| 0:21.3 | This week I speak to Kyle Lewis and Will Strong, authors of Over Time, why we need a |
| 0:25.1 | shorter working week. We discuss the centrality of struggles over working time to the history |
| 0:29.5 | of class struggle, why the shorter working week should be a central demand of labour movements |
| 0:33.6 | today, and how we need to re-imagine work to build a more just and sustainable world. |
| 0:39.0 | Thanks as always to our amazing patrons who make the show possible. If you want access |
| 0:42.6 | to the full hour long episode of this show, as well as full length interviews with previous |
| 0:45.9 | guests like Naomi Klein and Dr Cornel West, support us at patreon.com slash a world to win |
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| 1:04.2 | big thank you to Reverend and the Makers who've let us use their track heavyweight champion |
| 1:07.2 | of the world as our intro and outro music. And now here, a Kyle and Will, and what exactly |
| 1:11.5 | they mean by a shorter working week. |
| 1:13.2 | Hello, Will Strong and Kyle Lewis, and thank you so much for joining me on this episode |
| 1:23.0 | of a world to win. How are you both today? |
| 1:25.2 | I'm good. Thanks. |
| 1:26.0 | Thanks. Yeah. Thank you for having us. |
| 1:27.8 | Good. It's great to have you both here. So let's get straight into it. We're talking about |
| 1:32.2 | your book over time. And can you just start by telling us exactly what you mean by the |
| 1:36.7 | shorter working week? Because some people will just hear this and think, well, I haven't |
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