Unemployment In America: Political Economy, Crisis, and Full Employment
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Frank Stricker is a professor emeritus of history, interdisciplinary studies, and labor studies at California State University. He is the author of "American Unemployment: Past, Present and Future" and is a member of the National Jobs for All Coalition/Network
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.4 | On today's show we have Frank Stricker, on to talk about American unemployment, past, |
| 0:14.2 | present, and future. |
| 0:15.4 | So we touch on some economic realities of unemployment, the way unemployment and the |
| 0:21.2 | rhetoric around it's been used in American history, and then what full employment might |
| 0:26.1 | be like and the obstacles we'd have to overcome to get to that level and particularly during |
| 0:31.4 | this pandemic recession where so many millions and millions of people have lost their jobs |
| 0:37.0 | through no fault of their own. |
| 0:38.6 | I thought an episode focusing on unemployment would be important. |
| 0:42.6 | But before we get into this wonderful episode with Frank, I did want to do some sort of house |
| 0:46.7 | cleaning up front and promote some shows from my friends, talk about some other important |
| 0:52.7 | stuff that we just don't really get to talk about a lot on our public episodes. |
| 0:56.6 | So I wanted to set a little time aside to do just that. |
| 0:59.4 | So first and foremost, our friends over at the Red Nation podcast, their show is turning |
| 1:03.9 | one years old, I think last week or the week before. |
| 1:07.1 | So it's just a wonderful resource specifically for Indigenous voices, which I think are essential. |
| 1:13.3 | Nick Estes helps run it. |
| 1:14.6 | He was on our show on the history of aim, for example. |
| 1:19.4 | He's also obviously an author and just a wonderful historian and voice of Indigenous history, |
| 1:25.7 | Indigenous self-determination efforts, etc. |
| 1:28.7 | So if you haven't already, definitely go check out a Red Nation and support them on Patreon. |
| 1:33.9 | You know, supporting Indigenous voices and supporting a show like Red Nation is incredibly |
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