Jacobin Radio Folgen

From The Dig and Jacobin: a new narrative series about how COVID-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. The first of three episodes is coming soon.

Chapters eight and nine of EP Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class. Additional reading: Aaron Benanav, "Automation and the Future of Work—1" https://newleftreview.<wbr />org/issues/II119/articles/<wbr />aaron-benanav-automation-and-<wbr />the-future-of-work-1 Aaron Benanav, "Automation and the Future of Work—2"https://newleftreview.<wbr />org/issues/II120/articles/<wbr />aaron-benanav-automation-and-<wbr />the-future-of-work-2 E.P. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism" https://www.sv.<wbr />uio.no/sai/english/research/<wbr />projects/anthropos-and-the-<wbr />material/Intranet/economic-<wbr />practices/reading-group/texts/<wbr />thompson-time-work-discipline-<wbr />and-industrial-capitalism.pdf

Suzi talks to historians Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, touching on some of the many intersecting stories they tell in their long awaited and absolutely compelling history, Set the Night on Fire: Los Angeles in the Sixties.Here we see Los Angeles as a hotbed of political, social and cultural upheaval — from the Watts rebellion to the Chicano Blowouts, the anti-war movement, youth protests and strikes, the women’s and gay movements, the cultural flowering and media expressions, including KPFK, the Los Angeles Free Press and the Ashgrove — as well as the ferocious, racist and violent police response at every turn. Their account of the ever increasing mass protests and the movements behind them convey that “special excitement that occurs when a group of people can see and visibly measure their potential power for the first time.”