Program Information

#475 -- Cheap Junk and the Deindustrialization of America (R)

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Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Ellen Ruppel Shell (read); Marie Lausch, Kenneth Dowst

Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

April 9, 2017, 7:21 p.m.

Summary: Exploring the connections among ubiquitous cheap junk merchandise, domestic unemployment and poverty, starvation wages abroad, pollution everywhere, the destruction of the environment, the deindustrialization and Third-World-ization of America, and the ever-increasing wealth of the already-rich. Was there a vote on all this that somehow I missed? Includes unflattering words on G.E. by labor leader Marie Lausch & a passage on IKEA from Ellen Ruppel Shell's book, "Cheap."

Credits: Connecticut United Electrical Workers Union president Marie Lausch recorded by me at a symposium on converting Connecticut to a peacetime economy held at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 14, 2009. Shell passage as reprinted by the Toronto Globe & Mail, July 19, 2009, condensed for radio by me.

This is a replay of NWN #180 (August 2011).

"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "counter") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

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