Dig: Labor Histories w/ Nelson Lichtenstein
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🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Featuring Nelson Lichtenstein on his life and scholarship, from membership in the International Socialists and studies of the early United Auto Workers and CIO to his later turn to studying Walmart and international supply chains. Guest host Micah Uetricht interviews one of the greatest living labor historians.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com |
| 0:04.5 | and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:11.5 | One that you might like is Keywords for Capitalism, Power, Society, Politics by John Patrick Leary. |
| 0:19.1 | Keywords for Capitalism is a probing and insightful guide designed to equip readers with the tools |
| 0:25.2 | to understand the evasions, neologisms, and half-truths that crowd the discourse, revealing |
| 0:32.3 | the ideology of the mainstream political media that lies just below the surface. |
| 0:37.9 | John Patrick Leary carefully leads readers through the very real debates about words that really |
| 0:43.2 | do mean something, attentively distinguishing the substance worth preserving from the froth |
| 0:49.1 | that should be dismissed. As Greg Granton puts it, John Patrick Leary is our most valuable |
| 0:55.2 | lexicographer of capitalism. He's given us a serious and much-needed handbook to help those |
| 1:00.8 | who want to challenge capital to avoid falling into its semantic sand traps. Keywords for Capitalism |
| 1:08.0 | by John Patrick Leary, out now from Haymarket Books and available on Haymarketbooks.org, |
| 1:14.7 | where US and UK readers receive free shipping on orders over $25 and 25 pounds, respectively. |
| 1:23.3 | You can also check out my really excellent 2019 interview with John Patrick Leary. |
| 1:28.8 | It's in the archives at the digradio.com. |
| 1:32.4 | Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting |
| 1:47.1 | from Providence, Rhode Island. Nelson Lichtenstein is among the greatest living American labor |
| 1:53.1 | historians. Today's episode is a conversation with Lichtenstein conducted by guest host |
| 1:58.2 | Michael Utrecht, editor of Jacobin. Their conversation is wide-ranging, |
| 2:03.2 | beginning with Lichtenstein's life and education at the University of California Berkeley |
| 2:07.9 | in the midst of that campus's many eruptions in the 1960s. The intellectual and activist |
| 2:13.4 | influence of his membership in the international socialists, a Trotskyist organization, |
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