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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #78: The Union and the University
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In light of an unprecedented wave of labor organizing among graduate students, you might think the American college campus is being radicalized by an insurgency of revolutionary grad assistants. Actually, it’s more like graduate students are finding it harder and harder to survive on meager stipends under exploitative working conditions, and ar...