Look at Academic Labor to Know Why the WGA Strike Matters
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The ongoing writers’ strike has stirred great sympathy, the something rarely seen in the neoliberal onslaught of the last four decades. Students at Boston University taunted David Zaslav with “pay your writers” at their recent graduation, and all kinds of famous actors have joined the picket lines. Unlike too many of my Gen X brethren, younger people who grew up middle class are well aware these days that they are not getting the same sweet deal their parents got. They well understand the empty promises of capitalism.
Look at Academic Labor to Know Why the WGA Strike Matters
Look at Academic Labor to Know Why the WGA…
Look at Academic Labor to Know Why the WGA Strike Matters
The ongoing writers’ strike has stirred great sympathy, the something rarely seen in the neoliberal onslaught of the last four decades. Students at Boston University taunted David Zaslav with “pay your writers” at their recent graduation, and all kinds of famous actors have joined the picket lines. Unlike too many of my Gen X brethren, younger people who grew up middle class are well aware these days that they are not getting the same sweet deal their parents got. They well understand the empty promises of capitalism.