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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #105: A French Uprising, with Jonah Birch
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The streets and workplaces in France have been roiling with protests all spring, as the Socialist Party government attempts to push through a deeply unpopular reform of the country’s labor code that would include further “flexibilization” of the country’s famed 35-hour week. There have been strikes...