There are just two centers for the study of working-class life in America, and one of them is at SUNY-Stony Brook. At a recent conference there, academics and labor organizers exchanged ideas about who’s in the working class, and why the idea of class doesn’t resonate more strongly among Americans. But how to try Saddam Hussein, a documentary speaks with suicide bombers who lived, and your calls on mean bosses.
Trials and Tribulations
Gary Bass Professor of International Politics at Princeton, author Stay The Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Trials (Princeton University Press, 2002)on the charges against Saddam Hussein
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Richard Dicker Director of international Justice for Human Rights Watch
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David Rivkin Attorney ...
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Richard Dicker Director of international Justice for Human Rights Watch
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David Rivkin Attorney ...
Open Phones
listeners call in to talk about bullying bosses and bad jobs
Class Act
Esther Cohen artistic director of Bread and Roses, the not-for-profit culturalarm of New York's Health and Human Service Union, 1199/SEIU on the bid to create and an academic field devoted to working class issues
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Dorian Warren graduate student about to begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Harris ...
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Dorian Warren graduate student about to begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Harris ...
Death Wish
Tom Roberts Writer/Director of "Suicide Bombers," a PBS Wide Angle documentary on the minds of suicide bombers
Class Act
Why doesn't the USA have a broad working-class movement, akin to European social democratic parties? It's been a vexing riddle for American lefties for decades. At a recent conference at SUNY-Stony Brook's Center for Study of Working Class Life, professors, activists, and members of the working class got ...
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