Live-streamed on May 23, 2024 Daniel J. Galvin, professor of political science at Northwestern University, discusses his recent book Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights. https://x.com/daniel_j_galvin?lang=en Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights Professor Daniel Galvin then joins, first contextualizing what these “alternative labor” organizations are, with networks like worker centers, community organizations, and regional alliances providing particularly vulnerable workers in the vast, unionized sectors of the US economy an avenue for workplace and labor justice, be it wage theft, discrimination, sexual harassment, or labor conditions, though generally focusing on rectifying wrongs that have already occurred. Expanding on this, Professor Galvin explores how these organizations have begun shifting to a more proactive approach, advocating for state and local employment and labor policy to chip away at the severe power imbalance in the US economy, finding success in bluer districts and states, while meeting much more institutional (and financial) opposition elsewhere. After walking through the slow and steady undermining of FDR’s New Deal system of labor protections after the Second World War, and the shift away from collective bargaining to minimal employment protections, Galvin wraps up by assessing the devastating impact employer exploitation like wage theft actually has on the US economy, resulting in billions taken from the lowest-wage workers. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news Support the show by becoming a member: https://www.fans.fm/majority/join Find out more about the Princeton hunger strikers & their demands here: https://www.instagram.com/princetondivestnow/ Help out the state of Utah by telling them what you see in public bathrooms here!: https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint2.html Check out this GoFundMe in support of Mohammed Nasrallah, whose family is trying to leave Gaza for Egypt: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mohammed-nasserallah-and-family-go-to-egypt Check out this GoFundMe in support of Mohammad Aldaghma’s niece in Gaza, who has Down Syndrome: https://www.gofundme.com/f/yyxhnf-help-me-evacuate-my-family-from-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=control1&utm_medium=sms&utm_source=customer Check out the “Repair Gaza” campaign courtesy of the Glia Project here: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/rebuild_gaza_help_repair_and_rebuild_the_lives_and_work_of_our_glia_team#!/ Check out StrikeAid here!; https://www.strikeaid.com/ Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://www.fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://www.am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://www.majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://www.majority.fm/app CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJamE7FC1F0