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 9: Lucy Lloyd
We talk with Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught Apple product repair and support technician living in Sedan, Minnesota, a town with a population of less than fifty people. We talk about everything from growing up in a small town to setting up her independent repair business in the corner of her mom’s flower shop. We also talk a lot about the right to repair, a really important political issue that directly impacts repair workers like Lucy and all of us who use, consume, and depend on technologies from cars to smart phones.
Additional links/info below...
- U.S. PIRG - Right to Repair
- Repair.org
- iFixit
- Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Fight for the 'Right to Repair'"
- Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Corporations are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair"
- Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue"
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "The Death of Media"
- Rosie Spinks, The Guardian, "We're All Losers to a Gadget Industry Built on Planned Obsolescence"
- Jason Koebler, Motherboard, "Tractor-Hacking Farmers Are Leading a Revolt Against Big Tech's Repair Monopolies"
- Matthew Gault, Motherboard, "The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World'"
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
- Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
- Creo, "Place on Fire"