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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #147: Retailpocalypse Again? With Carrie Gleason
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The news that Toys “R” Us stores around the country would be closing has resulted in another round of breathless “retail apocalypse” news stories that predict utter collapse for the industry—which employs ten percent of all working Americans. What’s the real deal? What killed Toys “R” Us, and what does it mean for the people working there? How can they fight back? We talk with Carrie Gleason of the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fair Workweek Initiative about retail jobs of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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