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Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us.
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Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60 — Making Common Sense (opens the original)
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How does a contested political idea become familiar enough to feel like common sense? Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. In Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf examines the postwar struggle between American business and organized labor over the meaning of economic freedom, political authority, and the American way. Fones-Wolf argues that business leaders did more than lobby governmen
Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers — Who Pays? (opens the original)
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What happens when technological flexibility makes work easier to buy, but harder to live on? Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers by Steven Hill as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates a structural change in the relationship between workers, employers, technology, and economic risk. Hill argues that the celebrated sharing economy is part of a broader “freelance
Envisioning a future without food waste and food poverty — When Abundance Fails (opens the original)
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How can a food system create enormous abundance while simultaneously producing waste, hunger, and unhealthy diets? Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using Envisioning a future without food waste and food poverty: Societal challenges, edited by Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio and Mertxe De Renobales Scheifler, this episode investigates the systems connecting food waste, food poverty, economic access, public health, and food-system governance. The collect
Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America — Jobs, Marriage, Class (opens the original)
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What happens to family stability when the economic foundation supporting a particular family model begins to disappear? Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. In Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America, sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin traces the development of the American working-class family from industrialization through its postwar peak and subsequent decline. This episode examines how industrial wage labor helped or
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States — Who Controls the System? (opens the original)
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Who decides what an economy is ultimately organized to accomplish—and what changes when ownership itself becomes the variable under investigation? Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by the Party for Socialism and Liberation as our lens, this Deep Dive examines the authors’ proposal for transferring political and economic power from private capital to the working class. The book pre
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