Revaluing The Strike w/ Erik Baker
"Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
News & Politics
Laborwave Revolution Radio
Laborwave is based in Corvallis, Oregon and centers around revolutionary ideas and activism both local and transnational. We feature interviews and discussions with activists, authors, and a...
Episodes
20 of 76 episodes
Premajority Unionism with Eric Dirnbach
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss premajority unionism, where you don't need to wait around to act like a union but can be a union fro...
How To Revive the Labor Movement w/ Marianne Garneau
Back from hiatus with a no holds barred takedown of every popular argument for reviving the power of organizing labor! Marianne Garneau, edi...
Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, joins the show to respond to recent debate over the Wagner Act. Dimick makes...
The Long Deep Grudge w/ Toni Gilpin
Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge, which chronicles the epic battles of the Farm Equipment Workers Union...
William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Methods and Strategies
Second episode in our discussion of the life and thought of William Z. Foster. On this go around Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the sh...
William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination on his Theories and Politics
Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster, former president the Communist Party USA and trade unioni...
Media Strategies for Unions, A Wobbly's Take with Graham Kovich
Graham Kovich joins the show to discuss varying media and communications strategies for increasing union power. Graham is running for the ro...
On The Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
Daisy Pitkin joins the show to discuss her book about labor organizing and solidarity, On The Line. Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty...
Class Struggle Unionism [cross-over w/ Wobcast!]
Joe Burns discusses class struggle unionism on this joint episode between Laborwave Radio and Wobcast of Organizing Work. Marianne Garneau c...
Intersectional Class Struggle
Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building geared towa...
Organizing the White Lotus w/ Liz from Rebel Steps
Liz, host of Rebel Steps podcast, joins the show to discuss a fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious...
Shop Talk: Are They An Organic Leader or Bootlicker?
Andrea Haverkamp, a labor organizer based in Seattle, joins the show to talk shop about organic leaders, private vs public sector organizing...
State of Unions After Janus vs. AFSCME
Bill Fletcher Jr joins the show and discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States. Workers are increasingly...
Reviving The Strike
Joe Burns, a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer and the author of Strike Back and Reviving the Strike, joins the show to discuss the...
Lenin Was Wrong: Workplace Struggles Are Political
Marianne Garneau, publisher of Organizing.Work, joins the show to discuss her article Workplace Struggles Are Political. Garneau's provides...
Beauty & the Beast: Servant Uprising!
Graham Kovich joins the show to plan an organizing campaign for the servants in Beauty & the Beast! Graham and I imagine ourselves as two sa...
An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
Eric Laursen, author of The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State, joins the show to provide a concrete analysis of the...
EWOC: Can Popular Education Help Organize One Million Workers?
Eric Dirnbach joins the show to discuss his experience as an advanced organizer with EWOC, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a j...
A Defense of Wanting to Shoot the Foreman: On Speed-Ups and Union Decline
Gabriel Winant, historian and author of The Next Shift, joins the show to discuss the decline of union power in the face of speed-ups and an...