PRX - Pieces for Topic: Labor
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Ramble on Pearl is a clothing retail boutique with an additional mission. They have an on-the-job employment training program for adults with devel...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:59
Americans work 137 more hours per year than the Japanese, and almost 500 more than the French. How can we stay motivated for our long hours at work...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
In California a surprising trend is taking place, one that is threatening precisely what makes community colleges unique – their accessibility to a...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 10:58
2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 01:59
From: Green Connections Radio
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show
- Added: Feb 16, 2013
- Length: 04:54
Tomorrow’s primary recall election will determine the candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and which candidates will face each other in th...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 01:46
This documentary examines the volatile issues that are tearing at social fabric of the state of Wisconsin.
Its Republican governor is determined...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 31:58
- Purchases: 1
From "Discouraged Workers" 8/27/2010: War News Radio reports on young Iraqis’ struggle to find work.
- Added: Aug 26, 2010
- Length: 07:07
From "State of Privilege" 7/30/2010: War News Radio investigates the 2006 kidnapping of Ammar Al-Saffar, an Iraqi deputy minister of Health.
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 08:06
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
With around 80,000 Haitians expected to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow them to legally work and live in South Florida, ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2010
- Length: 03:30
One East Oakland neighborhood decided to try a different economic model in their community. Time Banking.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2009
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...
Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:44
The minimum wage went up by $.35 in Montana in July
- Added: Aug 20, 2009
- Length: 03:25
It's 115 degrees and your air conditioner is busted. Who do you call?
- Added: Jul 29, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:09
A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 09:02
