Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

A day will come when workers will no longer be slaves to the time clock, claims IWW member Chuck Allen. The original demand for less clock time early in the last century was for the 4-hour day 4 days a week. What we got instead was the 8-hour day.  Chuck wrote this piece... Read more

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"Organic agriculture can feed the world," says Catherine Badgley who teaches Ecology and the Evolution of Agriculture at the University of Michigan. Here she talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about the impact of industrial agriculture on our climate and how our food could... Read more

What are the protesting, demonstrating crowds in Ferguson saying?  What kind of racism is at work in that town and throughout the US?  British journalist Gary Younge of the Guardian talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about the situation. Photo credit: o.canada.com Read more

What legal recourse do the victims of police misconduct, like the family of Michael Brown, have?  Legal Moles Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss how the legal climate has developed from the time of Reconstruction to the present day, and how court judgments against poli... Read more

Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole with a focus on the aftermath of the police killing of  Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.  Also on the show are pieces on agriculture and climate change and liberation from working on the clock.  It's all held together with... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this Labor Day special and we hear: Joe talks with Nathan Schneider about "Who Stole the Four Hour Work-Day?", an article he wrote for Vice magazine about goals that drove the labor movement in its heyday, including the Industrial Workers of the Worl... Read more

Old Moles Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond talk about union organizing by way of a mutual review of Jane McAlevey's book "Raising Expecations, and Raising Hell: my decade fighting for the labor movement". They consider the official and cynical meaning of labor day, but also... Read more

Joe Clement and Nathan Schneider discuss an article he wrote recently for Vice Magazine that asks "who stole the 4-hour work day". They consider different rationales for reducing the work week, the social and psychological damage of working too much, its long past stretc... Read more

Joe Clement brings Kathi Weeks back on the show to talk about another chapter in her book The Problem With Work: marxism, feminism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries: utopianism. Kathi describes both realistic and deliberately unrealistic invocations of the uto... Read more