Arun Gupta on The Walmart Working-Class

Produced by: 
KBOO
Program:: 
Old Mole Variety Hour
Air date: 
Mon, 05/05/2014 - 12:00am
Arun Gupta talks about the organizing challenges and opportunities facing the working-class.
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about an article Arun wrote for The Socialist Register about "the Walmart working-class". They discuss the difficulties that both workers face in the low-wage service economy face trying to organize and that unions face in trying to organize them.

Arun writes cofounded The Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent.
Topic tags: 
Labor, Economy

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