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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. It's entirely clear that all meaningful progress is impossible

without an organized working class, a working class organized into labor unions.

Unfortunately, the labor movement has faced decades of devastating setbacks, losing millions of

members thanks to a bipartisan toward towards neoliberalism, a coordinated corporate offensive

against the New Deal settlement, and, most recently, the rise of apps like Uber, Lyft,

and DoorDash, which use technology to mystify their actual achievement, which is the mass

casualization of labor, all of that, and more. This week's Dig comes in two parts.

This episode is an interview with labor journalist Alex Press and organizer Jonah Ferman,

a big picture assessment of the state of the labor movement, how we got here, how we might move forward.

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