Ep: 4-72 Working People with Maximillian and Zac Alvarez

Today we speak to Maximillian Alvarez is a dual-PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, a columnist for The Baffler magazine, and host of the podcast Working People and his brother Zachary Alvarez...

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Today we speak to Maximillian Alvarez is a dual-PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, a columnist for The Baffler magazine, and host of the podcast Working People and his brother Zachary Alvarez who is a writer and economist from the University of Chicago.

The GM layoffs now (as part of a 30-year process of de-industrialization) show that labor’s concessionary bargaining model of negotiating higher wages has shown its insufficiency. Labor should have stuck with a more militant, postwar vision of negotiating shared ownership of the means of production.


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