From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove and along with my

co-host David Feldman. Hello David how did you celebrate your patriotic day of

devotion which President Trump declared his

inauguration. Every four years I sit down I watch the inauguration. I love America. I

watch Trump being sworn in like every other inauguration my eyes welled up in fact I'm still crying

And we also have the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph. Hello you got to do more and cry David you got to mobilize.

He's mobilizing his tears. That'll be the new song.

Well on today's show we're going to be talking about the future of work, specifically the digital

labor economy represented by platforms such as Uber and Task Rabbit and you know the rest.

We're going to be doing that with Trevor Schultz, associate professor at the new school in New York City.

We will also, per usual, check in with our corporate crime reporter, Russell Mokiber, the Batman of the corporate crime beat. We will also get to some long overdue

listener questions, but the digital revolution has changed a lot about the nature of

work. As a worker in this economy, what rights do you have? What are ways workers

can shape their own workplace? And here to tell us about it is our first guest, David?

Trevor Schultz is a scholar activist and associate professor for culture and media at the new school in New York City

and is an expert in the new digital labor economy.

His work, Uber worked and underpaid

how workers are disrupting the digital economy

introduces the concept of platform cooperativism,

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