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Working People

Working People · Maximillian Alvarez

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Show overview

Working People has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 400 episodes. That works out to roughly 450 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 40 min and 1h 24m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 34 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Maximillian Alvarez.

Episodes
400
Running
2018–2026 · 8y
Median length
1h
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Working People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network). Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode, you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life. We'll talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes and frustrations. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the country.

Latest Episodes

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"Katrina 2.0": Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)

Aug 24, 202647 min

No such thing as 'unskilled work': Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Nickel and Dimed' 25 years later

Aug 19, 202646 min

Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: Vermont healthcare workers and patients face historic crisis

Aug 13, 202627 min

Oil giant BP locks out workers at its last unionized refinery in US

Aug 10, 202650 min

Railroad jobs have "gotten worse" since Biden and Congress blocked workers from striking

Aug 5, 20261h 0m

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Jul 30, 202636 min

Data centers are not a "red state" or "blue state" problem; they're a working-class problem

Jul 15, 20261h 15m

Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next?

Jul 6, 20261h 12m

Toxic Avengers: America's poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die

Jul 1, 20261h 8m

UAW becomes first major union to divest from Israel

Jun 26, 20261h 4m

FBI raids homes of Michigan students and workers for Palestine activism

Jun 24, 202625 min

LIVE SHOW w/ Kim Kelly, Alex Press, and Hamilton Nolan

Jun 18, 20261h 12m

Who's afraid of Chris Smalls?

Jun 8, 202654 min

'They were going after everyone': Baltimore security officers fired and removed from schedules after lawful strike

May 27, 202629 min

Kim Kelly: Coal miners are dying, and Trump betrayed them

May 20, 202633 min

Over 4,000 UAW members on strike at Harvard University

May 12, 202650 min

Meet the new Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bosses, same as the old bosses

May 7, 202652 min

Alec Baldwin backs union drive at Starbucks

May 1, 202625 min

May 1: A Nationwide 'Economic Blackout' Against Billionaires and Authoritarianism

Apr 29, 202647 min

'The rain was black': A plant explosion set off a toxic bomb in this Louisiana town

Apr 15, 202652 min