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The last part of this miniseries is live! In the final episode of The Not-so-new Normal, Katharine Swindells speaks to Francis Holliss of the London Metropolitan University and Ursula Huws of the University of Hertfordshire about the origins of flexible working, its gendered history, and how it changes the power dynamic between employer and employee. Take a listen to the entire series with WTBU News Today wherever you get your podcasts!
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The second episode is out! Why are the jobs most essential to keeping society running, also paid the least? Today on The Not-so-new Normal, and the anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike, Katharine Swindells speaks to Ellen Ruppel Shell of Boston University and Bob Forrant of the University of Massachusetts Lowell about the strike, minimum wage, and how we really value work.
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The world has changed so drastically over the past year, not least the world of work. We’ve all had to adapt quickly, but between our endless zoom meetings, many of us have begun to question, perhaps for the first time, some of the ideas that underpin the modern capitalist workplace. In this three part miniseries, journalism graduate student Katharine Swindells interrogates some of these ideas and the history behind them, to show that our “new normal,” isn’t so new at all.
In this first episode of The Not-so-new Normal, Swindells asks, why do we “spend time” and “save time?" She speaks to historians Benjamin Hunnicutt of the University of Iowa and Nelson Lichtenstein of the University of California Santa Barbara about the 1930’s Kellogg's experiment with the 6-hour workday, and what we really mean when we talk about productivity.
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