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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: THE NEW MEANING OF WORK – Ian Dunt meets Jon Cruddas MP

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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While Labour agonises over whether it can reclaim working class votes, one question gets lost: what is work for? What do we get from it? If “good work” can give life meaning in an automated world, can Labour capture the post-working class world? Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, talks to Ian Dunt about his new book The Dignity of Labour, why the somewhere-anywhere mantra is “wretched”, what Starmer can take from FDR… and if the dream of “automated luxury communism” is just Get Out Of Jail politics.  • “Dignity today is often more about how you die than how you live.”  “The work that we value most in society – caring for one another - is the work that we value least in pay.” “I fear that the Right want the Left to choose between Somewhere and Anywhere, so they can lock in their power forever.” • “Progressive politics is being outmanoeuvred at every turn. We need to turn the tide.” Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jon-Cruddas/The-Dignity-of-Labour/25421083 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily my name is Ian Dunt and today I am talking to Johndust, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Raynham.

1:15.0

John served as Deputy Political Secretary to the Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1997, working on labour market policy.

1:21.0

He was policy coordinator within the Shadow Cabinet during

1:23.8

Ed Miliband's leadership in 2012 and 2015 and he is the author of a new book called

1:29.7

The Dignity of Labor. Hello John, how are you? Hi, and thanks for having us.

1:33.6

Not at all. It's a pleasure. Your book, which I enjoy very much by the way, comes with a quote above the, on the cover from Kia Starmerarma calling it an ambitious and essential read.

1:45.0

Now, how much can we presume from that fact about how likely it might be to turn into

1:51.2

opposition policy?

1:52.2

I would not invest too much energy in that assumption.

1:56.3

I think it was, you know, these things is an MP, you write a book is a courtesy,

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