Patriarchy and Capitalism
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
[EU S14 E11] Patriarch and Capitalism
This week's Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the UAW union's latest moves. Their organizing drives at auto plants, their efforts to form unions among employed and free-lance journalists. In addition, we will highlight New York Governor Kathy Hochul's decision to deploy national guard troops in New York City subways and what that means for everyday residents. Finally, an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on interactions between patriarchy and capitalism, today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:16.4 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. I want to remind |
| 0:24.0 | you quickly that we have a volunteer, Charlie Fabian, who is standing by to receive your suggestions, |
| 0:31.3 | comments, documents about topics that you think we ought to cover. We appreciate you're doing that. You've been doing it. |
| 0:39.4 | It has helped us, so it's something we're eager to continue. You can reach Charlie at |
| 0:45.4 | Charlie.info-338 at gmail.com. Once again, charlie.com. Once again, Charlie.info-438 at gmail.com. Today we're going to be talking about |
| 1:00.5 | the United Auto Workers organizing in the American South and what that means. We're going to |
| 1:06.4 | also be talking about a completely different organizing drive among journalists in the United States |
| 1:13.1 | and what those social impacts are. Then in the last part of the first half of the program, |
| 1:19.6 | we'll take a look at New York Governor Hoshel's decision to deploy National Guard troops |
| 1:26.3 | in New York City subways. The second half of the show is a |
| 1:31.1 | fascinating interview with a New York psychotherapist, Tess Fraud Wolf, about the relationship |
| 1:37.7 | between patriarchy on the one hand and capitalism on the other. I think you'll find it a program worth listening |
| 1:46.5 | to. So let's jump right in. The United Auto Workers achieved historic contracts with the |
| 1:56.6 | big three automakers, General Motors, Ford, Stalantis, last year, with wage increases in |
| 2:04.6 | the range of 30 to 40 percent over the life of that contracts. |
| 2:12.8 | It showed what labor can do if it's well organized, if it has a strategic plan, and if it has a committed |
| 2:19.9 | union leadership and membership, all of which UAW displayed. And so they have decided to take |
| 2:29.3 | their show on the road, to go particularly to the American South, where there are major auto plants that |
| 2:37.4 | have never been organized into a union. And they are achieving initial success, and I want to |
| 2:46.0 | talk about it, explain it, and show you why it matters. First, there are two plans where over 50% |
| 2:55.2 | of the workers have already signed union cards. What that means is they've indicated they want |
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