Economic Update: A "Living Wage"

[S11 E21] A "Living Wage"

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff comments on how and why "consumerism" matters and on why Biden's "progressive shift" is both like and unlike (far more limited so far) FDR's. Wolff then interviews two Canadian professors of labor studies, Carlo Fanelli and Bryan Evans, on the stakes for labor in fighting for a "living wage.

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About our guests: Bryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. Prior to his appointment at Ryerson, he worked as a policy adviser and senior manager at the Ontario Ministry of Labour. His research interests include the politics of the neoliberal administrative state and public policy. Recent publications include The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity (with Carlo Fanelli) and “The Politics of Public Administration: Constructing the Neoliberal State,” in Canadian Political Economy (ed. Heather Whiteside). A forthcoming volume, Varieties of Austerity (with Heather Whiteside and Stephen McBride), examines the fallout of the 2008 crisis from a comparative perspective.

Carlo Fanelli is an assistant professor and the coordinator of the Work and Labour Studies program in the Department of Social Science at York University. He is the author of Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto, co-editor (with Bryan Evans) of The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity: Perspectives from Canada’s Provinces and Territories, and editor of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. He maintains a collection of his writing at www.carlofanelli.org and on Twitter @carlofanelli.

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• Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium (with Mark P. Thomas, Leah Vosko and Olena. Lyubchencko)
• The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity: Perspectives from Canada's Provinces and Territories (with Bryan Evans)
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SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS:
1. Consumerism:
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210120-how-the-world-became-consumerist
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-consumer/

2. Biden’s “progressivism”:
- https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-proving-progressives-wrong-083011801.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/28/progressive-response-biden-speech-jamaal-bowman
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/24/aoc-says-biden-administration-has-exceeded-progressive-expectations/7366881002/

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