We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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I'm so excited about today's guest.

Maximilian Alvarez is the editor-in-chief of the Real News Network and the host of Working

People, a podcast about the live jobs, dreams and struggles of the working class today.

His work has been featured in a range of outlets, including the nation in these times.

Boston Review, Truth Out and the Baffler.

He has a book of interviews coming out in early 2022 with or books titled The Work of

Living, Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year, the World.

Thanks for joining us.

Emily, thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor to be here.

Yeah, of course.

And Max, I read your publication all of the time now and I think what it does so well is

amplify the voices of people in the working class in a way that few other publications are

able to do.

And at a time when that's as important as you could possibly imagine, can you tell us a

little bit about your background, how you got to this place where you really have the

privilege of skillfully chronicling the struggles of the working class and this deindustrialization

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