Working People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network). Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode, you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life. We'll talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes and frustrations. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the country.
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episode 8: After the Academy
In this special compilation episode, we talk to eight working-class scholars about loving, leaving, and being left behind by academia.
Additional links/info below...
- Working People, Season 1, Bonus Episode #2, Trevor Griffey
- Working People, Season 1, Episode 10, John Buckley
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "Contingent No More"
- Erin Bartram, "The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind"
- The Nostalgia Trap, "Episode 89: Erin Bartram"
- Patricia A. Matthew (ed), UNC Press, Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure
- Kevin Birmingham, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "'The Great Shame of Our Profession'"
- James M. Van Wyck & Lynn Arner, Inside Higher Ed, "Blue-Collar Ph.D."
- Trevor Griffey, LAWCHA, "The Decline of Faculty Tenure"
- Marc Bousquet, NYU Press, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
- Hamilton Nolan, Gawker, “The Horrifying Reality of the Academic Job Market”
- Anonymous, Inside Higher Ed, “Treadmill to Oblivion”
- Herb Childress, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "This Is How You Kill a Profession"
- Jonathan Kramnick, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "How the Jobs Crisis Has Transformed Faculty Hiring"
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive:freemusicarchive.org)
- Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
- Breath Before the Plunge, "End of All Things"
- Marisa Anderson, "Pulse"
- Return to Normal, "The Observer"