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Welcome to season 3 of The Mixtape with Scott! A podcast about the personal stories of economists and the collective story of economics of the last 50 years. We are kicking off season 3 with a bang: an interview with the distinguished labor economist, Richard Freeman, from Harvard University. Dr. Freeman holds is the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and serves as the Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. As you'll learn, his educational journey started with a B.A. from Dartmouth in 1964 and went into a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University which he competed in 1969.Freeman's work has been pivotal in reshaping perspectives on labor economics and industrial relations. His book "What Do Unions Do?" co-authored with James Medoff in 1984, challenged prevailing economic views by suggesting that unionism could enhance social efficiency. This groundbreaking work has been supported by subsequent studies, highlighting the positive impact of unions on productivity in various fields. Freeman has also made significant contributions to understanding the internationalization of science, the dynamics of the scientific workforce, and the implications of an overeducated American labor market.This was a super fun and at times funny interview, and I hope you like listening to it as much as I had being in it. Thanks again for tuning in! Don't forget to like, share, follow, etc.! Scott's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

Finding the elusive balance between utilizing technology and social media for our work, relationships, and overall happiness is no easy feat. It's a constant struggle, and sometimes it feels like these digital distractions have become an all-consuming time suck. We live in the 21st century & for many of us that means that giving up our phones, ignoring our inbox & deleting social media just isn't an option. So today, we're going to examine why tech is so addictive & how we can take back control of our time & our brains. Today's guest is Vivek Wadwha is a Distinguished Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School & the author of Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning The Battle To Control Your Brain & How To Fight Back. This episode is supported by Sleeping Duck CONNECT WITH USConnect with That's Helpful & Ed Stott on Instagram. Find Vivek on Twitter BOOKSYour Happiness Was Hacked Got an episode suggestion or feedback for me? Email me - ed@edwinastott.com

For the first episode of 2023, I called my friend, Terri Gerstein to discuss the issue of wage theft, the importance of prosecuting employers who steal from their workers, and the next frontier for worker protections. Terri Gerstein is the Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, and also a Fellow in the Program. She recently completed an Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government fellowship. Previously, she worked for over 17 years enforcing labor laws in New York State, including as the Labor Bureau Chief for the New York State Attorney General's Office, and as a Deputy Commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor. Before her government service, Terri was a nonprofit lawyer in Miami, Florida, where she represented immigrant workers and also co-hosted a Spanish language radio show on workers' rights. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Hill, among others; a complete listing can be found here. She has also appeared on Democracy Now, Univision and Telemundo. She's a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Follow Terri on Twitter: @TerriGerstein Visit Terri's website: https://www.terrigerstein.com Please rate, subscribe, and share the show. Follow us on social media: Twitter @AGEllison, Facebook @AGEllison, Instagram @agkellison, and TikTok @agkeithellison

REDIFFUSION. Comment trouver du sens dans son travail ? Travail (en cours) revient pour vous proposer des outils pratiques et des clés d'analyse pour insuffler du sens dans votre vie professionnelle. C'est pourquoi nous vous proposons de redécouvrir l'épisode "Donner aux salarié.e.s un pouvoir de décision aussi grand qu'aux actionnaires", qui a été diffusé pour la première fois le 8 avril 2021. Bonne écoute !Quand on regarde l'histoire de la démocratie, on remarque un affaiblissement progressif du lien entre propriété et droits politiques : aujourd'hui pour voter, on n'a plus besoin ni d'être propriétaire terrien, ni de démontrer un certain niveau de revenus. Mais s'il existe bien un endroit où la propriété de capital détermine encore les droits politiques aujourd'hui, c'est dans le cadre de l'entreprise capitaliste. Les prises de décisions stratégiques sont réservées aux actionnaires, et les travailleurs cantonnés à un rôle d'exécutants, voire de marchandises. Dans ce nouvel épisode de Travail (en cours), Isabelle Ferreras nous explique pourquoi il est nécessaire de réconcilier entreprise et gouvernement démocratique, et comment y parvenir. Sa théorie politique s'accompagne d'une proposition pour opérer cette transition : elle appelle cela le bicamérisme économique.Isabelle Ferreras est sociologue spécialiste du travail, maître de recherches du Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) belge et professeure à l'université de Louvain, Directrice de la Classe technologie et Société de l'Académie royale de Belgique et chercheure associée senior au Labor and Worklife Program de l'université d'Harvard. Cet épisode a été enregistré en direct du Brussels podcast festival à Bruxelles, le 27 février. Travail (en cours) est un podcast de Louie Media. Présentatrice : Camille Maestracci. Journaliste : Louise Hemmerlé. Louise Hemmerlé est chargée de production. Cet épisode a été monté et réalisé par Cyril Marchan. La musique est de Jean Thévenin et le mix a été fait par Olivier Bodin. Marion Girard est responsable de production, et Maureen Wilson responsable éditoriale. Mélissa Bounoua est à la direction des productions et Charlotte Pudlowski à la direction éditoriale. Pour que les podcasts de Louie soient accessibles à toutes et tous, des retranscriptions écrites des épisodes sont disponibles sur notre site internet. Si celle de l'épisode que vous cherchez n'est pas encore disponible, vous pouvez nous écrire à hello@louiemedia.com Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Vivek Wadhwa, author of Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future. Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author of five best-selling books: From Incremental to Exponential; Your Happiness Was Hacked; The Driver in the Driverless Car; Innovating Women; and The Immigrant Exodus. He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and has held appointments as Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program, Carnegie Mellon University, and Emory University; adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon and Duke University; fellow at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley; and head of faculty at Singularity University. He was also named one of the world's “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in that year; in June 2013, he was on TIME magazine's list of “Tech 40”, one of forty of the most influential minds in tech; and in September 2015, he was second on a list of “ten men worth emulating” in The Financial Times. In 2018, he was awarded Silicon Valley Forum's Visionary Award, a list of luminaries “who have made Silicon Valley synonymous with creativity and life-changing advancements in technology.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2021, only 11.6% of the workforce in the United States was unionized — down a half a percentage point from 2020. But after decades of decline, there are also hopeful signs for unions and the rights of workers. The rise of the gig economy, years of flat wages, and the economic turbulence unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic have given rise to a new movement, from Amazon warehouses to graduate schools, with a particular focus on how to protect workers' rights. In this moment, what can law schools do to advocate for workers, from scholarship and policy papers to clinics and classes? Three experts talk about the past, present, and future of this movement with Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: Sameer Ashar, a clinical professor of law and associate dean for equity initiatives at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, and director of the school's Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic; Sharon Block, a professor of practice and the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School; and Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at Berkeley Law and faculty director of the school's Center for Law and Work.About: More Just from Berkeley Law is a podcast about how law schools can and must play a role in solving society's most difficult problems. The rule of law — and the role of the law — has never been more important. In these difficult times, law schools can, and must, play an active role in finding solutions. But how? Each episode of More Just starts with a problem, then explores potential solutions, featuring Dean Erwin Chemerinsky as well as other deans, professors, students, and advocates, about how they're making law schools matter. Have a question about teaching or studying law, or a topic you'd like Dean Chemerinsky to explore? Email us at morejust@berkeley.edu and tell us what's on your mind, and follow @MoreJustPod on Twitter. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are thrilled to be joined by Mark Erlich. Mark retired as Executive Secretary-Treasurer (EST) of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) in 2017 and is now a fellow at the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program. As a member of Carpenters Local 40 since 1975, he worked at his craft as an apprentice, journeyman, foreman, and superintendent. He continues to serve as a member on the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals, MassINC board, and the Federal Reserve Advisory Council. The conversation was interesting throughout and covered a lot of topics including, the great recession (depression?) of 2008, the current perceived labor shortage, how labor unions function as a key to climbing out of poverty and into the middle class, the seeming rise of labor strikes (“striketober”), the surprising trend in NYC towards open shop labor on large projects, thresholds or tipping points that may trigger union involvement in a project, advantages of using union labor (skilled tradesman, safety, quality, schedule), the growth of misclassifying people who are employees as independent contractors. Finally, we get Marks take on modular construction and his skepticism of tech evangelists who avow to ‘disrupt' the industry (i.e. Katerra) and Mark's impression of the positive changing dynamics of the Union Workforce. Thank you as always for rating and reviewing the Real Estate Addicts Podcast! Podcast Sponsor: First Boston Capital Partners www.grossmanco.com/private-lending/ Trusted partner & private lender providing loans to builders, developers and real estate investors in MA, CT, RI, NH & NY.

In this episode, I sit down with Vivek Wadhwa to talk about his pivot from tech entrepreneur and big tech enthusiast, to critic and activist. We talk about his path to tech and then to his activism in education, his research into tech innovation, and his research into the importance of global diversity when considering questions of how we imagine, innovate, and build. Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program. He is the author of five best-selling books: From Incremental to Exponential; Your Happiness Was Hacked; The Driver in the Driverless Car; Innovating Women; and The Immigrant Exodus. He has been a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and held appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley, Emory University, and Singularity University. In 2012, the U.S. Government awarded Wadhwa distinguished recognition as an “Outstanding American by Choice” for his “commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans.” He was also named one of the world's “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in that year; in June 2013, he was on TIME magazine's list of “Tech 40”, one of forty of the most influential minds in tech; and in September 2015, he was second on a list of “ten men worth emulating” in The Financial Times. In 2018, he was awarded Silicon Valley Forum's Visionary Award, a list of luminaries “who have made Silicon Valley synonymous with creativity and life-changing advancements in technology.”   Wadhwa is an advisor to several governments; mentors entrepreneurs; and writes for top publications across the globe. He has also researched Silicon Valley's diversity, or the lack of it.  He documented that women entrepreneurs have the same backgrounds and motivations as men do, but are rare in the ranks of technology CEOs and CTOs. He is the founding president of the Carolinas chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network intended to foster entrepreneurship.  He has been featured in thousands of articles in publications worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and Science Magazine, and has made many appearances on U.S. and international TV stations, including CBS 60 Minutes, PBS, CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC, and the BBC. This episode was produced by Mereck Palazzo & Matt Perry. Art by Desi Aleman.

Steel Workers union president Tom Conway on president Biden's American Jobs Plan and the need to invest in the nation's infrastructure…UNITE HERE Local 11 organizer and co-president Susan Minato talks about growing up as the daughter of working-class Japanese parents, and how the lessons her mother taught her helped shape UNITE HERE's training model…Professor Mel Simms from Glasgow University discusses the scarring effect of a recession on the career trajectories of young people and some possible solutions…Registered Nurse Leslie Egan describes nursing in Albany during the pandemic…We explore the problems of rampant wage theft and poor enforcement by the Department of Labor, with Center for Public Integrity Senior Reporter Alexia Fernandez Campbell and Terri Gerstein, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program. Then, three union veterans discuss the connection between the military and the class system…and we wrap up with filmmaker Mark Street and longshoreman Maureen Gutierrez on Mark's new film Work Songs. PLUS: The Winnipeg General Strike Begins, on Labor History in 2:00. We've got reports from Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast; Labor History in 2:00  Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @steelworkers @LALabor @duesunion @nysaflcio @WPFWMMQB @WorkingPod @dockerpodcast @ILLaborHistory Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

In this episode Kaihan welcomes Vivek Wadhwa, who talks with him about exponential technologies, what it takes for a large legacy company to act like a nimble entrepreneurial one, and why at this moment, over the next decade or so, we have one of the biggest opportunities humanity has faced in our history. Vivek is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program. He's based in Silicon Valley and researches, speaks, and writes about advancing technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and nanomaterials. He's the author of five bestselling books and was named one of the world's “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine, was on TIME magazine's list of “Tech 40," one of forty of the most influential minds in tech.In this discussion, Vivek helps us understand how we can create a “start trek” future in which we have almost unlimited free clean energy, an abundance of food for the planet, cure almost every disease, and educate the world. We can have that if we make the right choices about how and where technology is used. But if we don't play our cards right, we could be headed to a dark future, the “mad max” future. He leaves us finally with some concrete ideas of what you can do right now, as an innovator, as a strategist, to move us toward that “star trek” future. __________________________________________________________________________________________"The problem is that every technology can be used for good and it can be used for evil. The first technology was fire. Fire could use to keep us warm, or it could be used to burn down houses. That's the way it's always been.Use technology for good...You can use technologies for uplifting communities. You can help the poor. You can do a lot of good for the world. Think big, start, small solve problems."-Vivek Wadhwa__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Vivek Wadhwa + The topic of today's episode2:30—If you really knew me, you know that...3:04—What is your definition of strategy?4:08—How can a linear large company act like an agile exponential one?6:06—Could you describe exponential technologies and point us to ones that people aren't paying as much attention to that we should be?8:09—Can you tell us about the implications of devices not only being smarter, but also communicating better?9:33—What are you predictions for fundamentals, like energy, food, health and education?12:00—What is the challenge for us to be able to create or plan for this exponential Star Trek future or maybe the dark future? 14:21—We can't rely on the individual to say "This technology should be used for good." How do we unravel that?16:20—Is there an action, a framework, a tool, a step that you would recommend that someone take?__________________________________________________________________________________________Resources Mentioned:Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailVivek Wadhwa: From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation

In this episode Kaihan welcomes Vivek Wadhwa, who talks with him about exponential technologies, what it takes for a large legacy company to act like a nimble entrepreneurial one, and why at this moment, over the next decade or so, we have one of the biggest opportunities humanity has faced in our history. Vivek is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program. He's based in Silicon Valley and researches, speaks, and writes about advancing technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and nanomaterials. He's the author of five bestselling books and was named one of the world's “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine, was on TIME magazine's list of “Tech 40," one of forty of the most influential minds in tech.In this discussion, Vivek helps us understand how we can create a “start trek” future in which we have almost unlimited free clean energy, an abundance of food for the planet, cure almost every disease, and educate the world. We can have that if we make the right choices about how and where technology is used. But if we don't play our cards right, we could be headed to a dark future, the “mad max” future. He leaves us finally with some concrete ideas of what you can do right now, as an innovator, as a strategist, to move us toward that “star trek” future. __________________________________________________________________________________________"The problem is that every technology can be used for good and it can be used for evil. The first technology was fire. Fire could use to keep us warm, or it could be used to burn down houses. That's the way it's always been.Use technology for good...You can use technologies for uplifting communities. You can help the poor. You can do a lot of good for the world. Think big, start, small solve problems."-Vivek Wadhwa__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Vivek Wadhwa + The topic of today's episode2:30—If you really knew me, you know that...3:04—What is your definition of strategy?4:08—How can a linear large company act like an agile exponential one?6:06—Could you describe exponential technologies and point us to ones that people aren't paying as much attention to that we should be?8:09—Can you tell us about the implications of devices not only being smarter, but also communicating better?9:33—What are you predictions for fundamentals, like energy, food, health and education?12:00—What is the challenge for us to be able to create or plan for this exponential Star Trek future or maybe the dark future? 14:21—We can't rely on the individual to say "This technology should be used for good." How do we unravel that?16:20—Is there an action, a framework, a tool, a step that you would recommend that someone take?__________________________________________________________________________________________Resources Mentioned:Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailVivek Wadhwa: From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation

Quand on regarde l’histoire de la démocratie, on remarque un affaiblissement progressif du lien entre propriété et droits politiques : aujourd’hui pour voter, on n’a plus besoin ni d’être propriétaire terrien, ni de démontrer un certain niveau de revenus. Mais s’il existe bien un endroit où la propriété de capital détermine encore les droits politiques aujourd’hui, c’est dans le cadre de l’entreprise capitaliste. Les prises de décisions stratégiques sont réservées aux actionnaires, et les travailleurs cantonnés à un rôle d’exécutants, voire de marchandises. Dans ce nouvel épisode de Travail (en cours), Isabelle Ferreras nous explique pourquoi il est nécessaire de réconcilier entreprise et gouvernement démocratique, et comment y parvenir. Sa théorie politique s’accompagne d’une proposition pour opérer cette transition : elle appelle cela le bicamérisme économique.Isabelle Ferreras est sociologue spécialiste du travail, maître de recherches du Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) belge et professeure à l’université de Louvain, Directrice de la Classe technologie et Société de l’Académie royale de Belgique et chercheure associée senior au Labor and Worklife Program de l’université d’Harvard. Cet épisode a été enregistré en direct du Brussels podcast festival à Bruxelles, le 27 février. Travail (en cours) est un podcast de Louie Media. Présentatrice : Camille Maestracci. Journaliste : Louise Hemmerlé. Louise Hemmerlé est chargée de production. Cet épisode a été monté et réalisé par Cyril Marchan. La musique est de Jean Thévenin et le mix a été fait par Olivier Bodin. Marion Girard est responsable de production, et Maureen Wilson responsable éditoriale. Mélissa Bounoua est à la direction des productions et Charlotte Pudlowski à la direction éditoriale. Pour que les podcasts de Louie soient accessibles à toutes et tous, des retranscriptions écrites des épisodes sont disponibles sur notre site internet. Si celle de l’épisode que vous cherchez n’est pas encore disponible, vous pouvez nous écrire à hello@louiemedia.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on the AWF Union Podcast, American Federation of Government Employees Local 31 President Darryll Bell spoke about strengthening labor law and collective bargaining rights and the understaffed VA hiring more people with the pandemic seemingly slowing down. Also featured on today’s episode was Terri Gerstein. She is the Labor and Worklife Program Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. She discussed how law enforcement will be prosecuting employers that commit wage theft and worker misclassification. 

The travel industry has to realise that everything has changed, says Vivek Wadwha, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program. Talking to David, he explains that the current crisis has fundamentally changed the way we live and work, moving us forward five or even 10 years in terms of technology. Business travel will not go back to pre-crisis norms, with at least a third of our meetings staying as video calls rather than face-to-face. The winners, Vivek suggests, are those who embrace and acknowledge this change—who figure out what's going to happen next, take a leap forward and leverage this reality to their advantage.

This week Beth and Jess talk about the rights of essential workers as COVID infection rates continue to soar in many US states. To learn more, Jess speaks to Sharon Block, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Sharon describes how we can give workers a bigger say over their work - and how the costs of the pandemic are being borne disproportionately by low-wage workers, a population made up primarily of women and workers of color. Jess and Sharon also explore police union reform, labor issues in the Presidential race, and changing campaign financing in the US.   Special thanks to Mike Boucher at Sonic Pictures for production support. LinksUS Workers Need More Power - The Washington PostThe Workplace Powers That Employees Need - The AtlanticWorker Power and Voice in the Pandemic Response - Clean Slate Project at Harvard Law SchoolBeaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse

Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, joins David to talk about the gig economy and the impact it's having on workers and companies. Gerstein talks about the need to get a true reporting of how many workers participate in the gig economy, the responsibilities companies like Uber, Lyft, Handy and Task Rabbit have to properly classify their workforce and the impact that has on their opportunity to earn a living. This episode was recorded live from the 2020 NYSBA Annual Meeting. Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA's 118th President, David Miranda.

In the wake of an important Nevada union's decision not to endorse any candidate because of their concerns over the health care proposals across the board, a subset of Sanders voters reportedly took to social media to harass and harangue the union.  On today's show: Jane McAlevey, labor and environmental organizer, post doctoral fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, discusses how the candidates are courting organized labor, and how unions' political capital could play in the primary and general elections.

Attorney General Keith Ellison discusses wage theft with Terri Gerstein, the Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program. Terri has worked for over 17 years enforcing labor laws in New York State. Over the course of her career Terri has represented immigrant workers and has been an advocate against wage theft.

This episode was first released in March, but so much has happened since then in the world of overtime that we thought we’d repost this episode with a new intro. Since this originally aired, Washington state has proposed a new overtime threshold that would expand overtime pay to 250,000+ workers. Since overtime laws haven’t been updated since 1976, this is a big deal! So brush up on your OT knowledge with this episode, featuring Sharon Block and Chris Lu.  Sharon Block is the Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. For twenty years, she held key labor policy positions across the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, including head of the policy office at the Department of Labor.  Twitter: @sharblock Chris Lu was the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Obama Administration from 2014 to 2017. He also served as Assistant to the President and White House Cabinet Secretary under Obama from 2009 to 2013. He is a Practitioner Senior Fellow at the UVA Miller Center. Twitter: @ChrisLu44 Further reading:  https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/06/05/40402423/hundreds-of-thousands-of-workers-will-be-newly-eligible-for-overtime-in-washington-state https://www.businessinsider.com/overtime-pay-is-a-fundamental-right-nick-hanauer-2019-6?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar&utm_term=desktop&referrer=twitter https://crooked.com/articles/beat-trump-overtime-pay/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The overtime threshold used to be the minimum wage for the middle class—but where did it go? Labor experts Sharon Block and Chris Lu join Nick and Jasmin to explain why the overtime threshold, which used to cover 65 percent of workers, today covers only 7 percent. That’s craziness! And surprise, surprise—employers love to claim that forcing you to work for free is in your own best interest. But are they telling the truth? Sharon Block is the Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. For twenty years, she held key labor policy positions across the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, including head of the policy office at the Department of Labor.  Twitter: @sharblock Chris Lu was the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Obama Administration from 2014 to 2017. He also served as Assistant to the President and White House Cabinet Secretary under Obama from 2009 to 2013. He is a Practitioner Senior Fellow at the UVA Miller Center. Twitter: @ChrisLu44 Further reading:  https://crooked.com/articles/beat-trump-overtime-pay/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Gould asks how early career researchers can develop their careers in the face of funding's "boom and bust" cycle and the short-termism it engenders.Governments are swayed by political uncertainty and technological developments, argues Michael Teitelbaum, author of Falling Behind?Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent.In the US, for example, space research funding dramatically increased after Soviet Russia launched the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957, ending after the 1969 moon landing.Similar booms followed in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, says Teitelbaum, a Wertheim Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and senior advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York.But he argues that they are unsustainable and can have a negative impact on the careers of junior scientists and their research. Will Brexit trigger a funding downturn, and if so, for how long? Watch this space, says Teitelbaum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alex Salkever, Technology Expert and former Technology Editor at BusinessWeek, and Vivek Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, join host Rob Coneybeer to discuss their new book "Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning The Battle To Control Your Brain - And How To Fight Back" on Launch Pad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode explores what a social contract of employment looks like, given the changing nature of work in the 21st century economy. We hear from Tom Kochan, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management; Oren Cass, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; Steven Pedigo, an assistant professor at the NYU School of Professional Studies; and Sharon Block, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.You can learn more about enrolling in Tom Kochan’s edX course, Shaping the Future of Work, here.For additional information on the issues we briefly examine, we recommend the following resources:Thomas A. Kochan, Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract (MIT Press 2017).Oren Cass, American Workers Need a New Kind of Labor Union, Wall St. J. (Aug. 31, 2017), https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-workers-need-a-new-kind-of-labor-union-1504220896.Richard Florida, What the New Urban Anchors Owe Their Cities, CityLab (Sep. 21 2017), https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/09/what-the-new-urban-anchors-owe-their-cities/540588/.James B. Atleson, Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law (U. Mass. Press 1983).Mark Barenberg, The Political Economy of the Wagner Act: Power, Symbol, and Workplace Cooperation, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1381 (1993).Jake Rosenfeld, What Unions No Longer Do (Harv. U. Press 2014) Benjamin Sachs, Agency Fees and the First Amendment, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1046 (2018).Benjamin Sachs, Despite Preemption: Making Labor Law in Cities and States, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 1153 (2011).This episode was produced by Mareva Lindo.Thanks to Doctor Turtle for the music:"Lullaby for Democracy" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/The_Double-Down_Two-Step/lullaby_for_democracy)"Go Tell It On the Molehill" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/Flush_Your_Rolex_1416/go_tell_it_on_the_molehill_2)

On this episode Gabe and i talk to Jane F. McAlevey who has been an organizer in the environmental and labor movements for over 20 years. She A Post Doctoral Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author "Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement." We talk to Jane about her latest book, "No Short cuts: organizing for power in the New Guilded Age." She even tells us something she has never said before! After the interview, Gabe and I talk about identity politics, DNC chair race and some surprisingly racists things Garrison Keeler said. Then we get into some not at all surprisingly racist things that renowned bigot Alan Dershowitz said. And as a bonus, I talk to Nomiki Konst, a reporter at the Young Turks, who has done the best and most thorough reporting on the conflicts of interest rampant at the DNC and the DNC chair race. This was going to be patreon premium content but it's too important for me not to share part of it with everyone. But to hear the rest of the interview with Nomiki Konst, go to patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow https://www.patreon.com/posts/8346121. And major shout out to Kathleen Hancock who answered the call I put out on twitter and Facebook asking for a bumper we could use at the beginning and end of videos we make out of our some of our shows. She's extremely talented and donated her talent and time to us.

Une émission de la série « Entrevues », réalisée par Gabriel Monette et produite par Radio-CRÉ avec l'aide du Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). Pour cette émission, on rencontre Isabelle Ferreras qui est, entre autres, professeure de sociologie à l'Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) et associée au programme Labor and Worklife Program à l'École de droit de l'Université Harvard. Avec elle, nous discutons de son livre Gouverner le capitalisme? Pour le bicamérisme économique (Septembre 2012, PUF, Paris). Il sera donc question de travail, de démocratie en entreprise et de design des institutions.

Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, joins Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer to discuss the impact of technological changes on the world of work. Will machines substitute old jobs and create new ones? Or will machines just take over and leave large groups of people unemployed and unemployable? This episodes discusses these crucial questions about the future of work.

The specter of massive inequality is haunting modern capitalism, with a small elite – the 1%, 0.01%, 0.001% of billionaires and financiers and the like – gaining the bulk of the benefits of modern economic growth and using their wealth to dominate economies and politics. In virtually every country, labor's share of income has fallen and inequality has increased massively. What, if anything, can we do to restore a more egalitarian distribution of income, with a strong middle class, and restore the historic link between growth of productivity and real wages? This talk argues that the answer lies in wider ownership of capital and worker participation in decisions at their workplace and firm. It gives the evidence that this solution works and lays out ways to get from here to there. Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is currently Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.

Vivek Wadhwa is a Visiting Scholar, School of Information, UC-Berkeley; Director of Research, Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, and Exec in Residence, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University; and faculty member and advisor at Singularity University. He helps students prepare for the real world; lectures in class; and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is also an advisor to several startup companies, a columnist for The Washington Post and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and writes occasionally for several international publications. Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa founded two software companies. During our conversation, Vivek the reason why there is a lack of Blacks in position of power in the tech industry, what Blacks need to do to crack Silicon Valley, the pushback that he has received from a number of people for his views, African American feedback to his views and that there is hope for Black to make it and how to succeed in Silicon Valley. Click on the following link to read Vivek's article "We need a black Mark Zuckerburg": http://wadhwa.com/2011/06/24/washington-post-we-need-a-black-mark-zuckerberg/ You can connect with Vivek via: http://wadhwa.com/ (Website) @wadhwa Wadhwa@duke.edu (email)

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Between the Lines at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor; Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director.   Producer: Andrew Stelzer Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Associate Director: Khanh Pham Station Relations:  Daphne Young Web Editor: Jeff GiaQuinto Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker   For More Information: Between the Lines A weekly radio news magazine show http://btlonline.org/   The Black Commentator http://blackcommentator.com/ Mullica Hill, NJ   CUNY Graduate Center http://www.gc.cuny.edu/ New York, NY Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University http://bit.ly/butM2t Cambridge, MA   Left Forum 2010 http://leftforum.org/ New York, NY  Rutgers School of Law–Newark http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/ Newark, NJ Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:  Audio recordings of panel discussions recorded at the Left Forum, March 20, 2010 in NY. http://www.btlonline.org/2010/leftforum032010.html  Music: Mass Appeal by Gangstarr Lovesick by Gangstarr   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions [Labor Day Special Encore] appeared first on KPFA.

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Building Bridges at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor;Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director For More Information:   The Black Commentatorhttp://blackcommentator.com/Mullica Hill, NJ CUNY Graduate Centerhttp://www.gc.cuny.edu/New York, NY   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions appeared first on KPFA.