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Sneak Peak: Why we need a 21st Century Labor Movement (Wilkinson & Pickett)

Sneak Peak: Why we need a 21st Century Labor Movement (Wilkinson & Pickett)

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June 29, 20165m 15sExplicit

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Inequality reduced dramatically from around the 1930s to the 1980s, when it suddenly started rising again to levels not seen for almost a hundred years. What happened? Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket, authors of the influential book The Spirit Level, explain what happened and how worker-owned cooperatives can serve as a countervailing force to neoliberalism.