A Minimum Minimum Wage Increase (1977)

**One week only, get a 20% discount on the newsletter using this link! thisdaypod.substack.com/35c7aaa4**For our "Sunday Context" episode, we go back to an episode from week two (!) of this podcast to look at the controversy over Obama's "cling to guns and religion" comments. Plu ...  Show more

Our conversation about Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright continues with a look at what he said about race in America during his "A More Perfect Union" speech. Jody, Niki, and Kellie also look at how the speech previewed -- or didn't -- how Obama would talk about race and ...  Show more

Introducing a brand-new daily podcast from the team at WCH. On This Day in Working Class History will be a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history.
Launching on 1 February on a trial basis, eac ...  Show more

We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism, a new book from Verso Books. Jones is also a researcher for the think tank Autonomy.

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El retrato político de los reos que arribaron a Francia a partir de 1938 nos muestra a antiguos combatientes del Ejército Popular y a miles de sindicalistas. El doctor en Historia Gaspar Celaya, experto en el exilio, confirma que hubo anarcosindicalistas de la CNT, trotskistas de ...  Show more

The current federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 and has not increased since 2009. Meanwhile, disabled employees can legally be paid less than their non-disabled counterparts, earning as little as 25 cents per hour. Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show research ...  Show more