Focus 580 with David Inge
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
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Interview Archives: Labor/worker issues
Tuesday January 27, 2004, 10:06 AM
Just What The Nation Needed: The Welfare Reform Law of 1996
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution Health and Social Welfare Initiative
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment • Law • Politics
Friday February 13, 2004, 11:06 AM
THE NEW RUTHLESS ECONOMY: WORK AND POWER IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Simon Head, Director of the Project on Technology and the Workplace at The Century Foundation
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Categories: Business and Economy • Labor/worker issues • Technology
Wednesday May 26, 2004, 11:06 AM
THE CHILDREN OF NAFTA: LABOR WARS ON THE US/MEXICO BORDER
David Bacon, associate editor at Pacific News Service and a regular contributor to The Nation, the L.A. Weekly and other periodicals
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Categories: Labor/worker issues • Trade • NAFTA
Wednesday June 30, 2004, 10:06 AM
Balancing Work and Family
Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute; and Karen Kornbluh, Program Director, Work and Family Program, New America Foundation
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Categories: Community • Family • Labor/worker issues
Wednesday July 07, 2004, 11:06 AM
THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN: THE STORY OF AMERICA’S LARGEST LABOR UPRISING
Robert Shogan, adjunct professor of Government at the Center for Study of American Government at John’s Hopkin’s University
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Categories: History • United States history • Labor/worker issues
Friday July 23, 2004, 11:06 AM
THE NEW RUTHLESS ECONOMY: WORK AND POWER IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Simon Head, Director of the Project on Technology and the Workplace at The Century Foundation
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, February 13, 2004, 11 am
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Labor/worker issues
Monday August 02, 2004, 11:06 AM
Wealth and Income Inequality In America
Betsy Leondar Wright, Communications Director, United for a Fair Economy; and Jim Lardner, Founder of inequality.org
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Categories: Business and Economy • Gender issues • Labor/worker issues
Wednesday October 13, 2004, 11:06 AM
The Working Poor Families Project Report (from The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Brandon Roberts, Report Director
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Categories: Economics • Family • Labor/worker issues • Poverty • Public Policy
Tuesday May 02, 2006, 10:06 AM
DEATH IN THE HAYMARKET: A STORY OF CHICAGO, THE FIRST LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE BOMBING THAT DIVIDED GILDED AGE AMERICA
James Green, Professor of Labor History at the University of Massachusetts Boston
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Categories: History • Labor/worker issues
Friday October 05, 2007, 11:06 AM
Shareholder Activism: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why it Matters
Patricia Daly, Executive Director, Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Labor/worker issues
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