Mar 02 2010
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy
A few days ahead of the February jobs report, Vice President Joe Biden is touting Obama’s stimulus package which he claims will create between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs a month by this summer. What is usually not discussed is the quality of jobs created and whether they actually sustain American livelihoods. For many Americans, making ends meet has been a constant challenge, well before the latest recession was officially pronounced. However, across the nation, middle managers and employers have been refusing to be complicit in an economy that cannot sustain working people, by taking subversive actions like padding paychecks, redirecting food, and other acts of economic disobedience. Documenting such acts is professor of sociology at Boston College, Lisa Dodson. Her eight years of research and conversations with hundreds of Americans is distilled into hew new book, The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy.
GUEST: Lisa Dodson, professor of sociology at Boston College, former jobs include union activist, obstetrical nurse, and director of the Division of Women’s Health for the State of Massachusetts.
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