Reviving the Labor Movement | Margaret Levi | TEDxSeattle
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- In this 2021 TEDxSeattle talk, Margaret Levi shares her ideas on what roles labor unions play in our lives and futures, and how we need to imagine and build better labor organizations for the 21st century.
Margaret explains how labor unions balance the playing field by protecting the rights of workers. She discusses how the dramatic decline of labor unions contributes to an increase in inequality and is jeopardizing the middle class well-being of generations to come.
2:45 - Unions even the playing field
6:59 - Why Unions are in danger
13:12 - We need to reimagine labor unions for where we are now
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Learn more about Margaret: profiles.stanford.edu/margare...
Learn more about Margaret’s take on moral economy: • A CALL FOR A MORAL ECO... Meet Margaret Levi: professor, author, and advocate for democracy who believes the decline of unions creates real problems for our society. She asserts the need for new forms of labor organization appropriate for our times.
Margaret has dedicated much of her career championing the worker’s voice. Born in the post-World War II era, she grew up living in the shadow of the holocaust and with the existential threat of a nuclear disaster constantly looming around the corner. The McCarthy era, a time when conspiratorial theories ran rampant, coincided with the civil rights movement, Margaret recalls her mother taking her and her sister to civil rights marches at young ages. As a teenager, she joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and listened in awe as Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Having experienced history as it was being written provides Margaret with a unique perspective on how to reconstruct democracy to make it viable for today’s time and age. She wants us to think about how we reconstruct our political economic framework so that it is actually suited to the way the economy works now and the problems people want and need to solve.
Margaret Levi has been a distinguished professor of political science for almost 50 years. She spent most of her career with the University of Washington keeping an eye on the labor movement. As Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Margaret Levi is the author of numerous books, ran the Center for Labor Studies, and started The Brand Responsibility Project. She is the winner of the Skytte Prize, considered the Nobel in political science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I am a proud teamster truck driver 🇺🇸
I really love how she pointed out that maybe the standard union isn’t the future, but workers having a say over their pay and respect? That is So Needed, and at the heart of the labor movement 💛 thank you
She’s a full blown Marxist.
Give people the power to say no to unsafe work! No more evictions from primary residences!!
We're all aware of the impact technology is having on the labor force. I think about the future and hearing how technology is taking away jobs and wonder what people will do in the future I think about my needs and my own personal struggle with my ego and suitable employment options. The more evolved and educated we become the ego should become dissolved. Roles we will play and employment opportunities are going to continue to change. I see a rise in the cost of food, I hear that countries are starving because they have to export the food they grow, it sounds horrible. I think we should support and encourage the agricultural community to help sustain life. I think the people producing healthy food are very important to our future globally I would think having more plants growing would have a positive impact on the environment as well. Creating more employment opportunities is essential to having a healthy thriving society. I hope more people find more personal satisfaction in their careers in the production of food and realize how important they are to all of our future around the world. What some may view as a simple life is a key element to our survival. I hope more people find it rewarding to work in the industry of healthy food production, distribution and the various roles involved.
there will be a lot less people in the future
That is the craziest necklace ive ever seen.
Power to the people
Trims motivasinya, makin termotivasi
We need stronger brave and wise union leaders and reps who understands how much is at stake
Thanks for sharing
We can make changes but need our numbers! Don’t be afraid to stand up for what you believe in.
🙏😘
But only if you believe in The Right Things
The Rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Primero saludos desde Argentina
Meu filho faz traduções para o Inglês,mais ele cobra porque vive disso ok
Meu filho trabalha com tradução,ele vive disso e por isso tem um custo 🤝
How do I get involved in the fight?
I think she got the part about the Dolly Parton song 9 to 5 wrong. I think the song is about an eight hour workday grind, not a union called 925, lol
Yes, 9 to 5 refers to work hours which is why the union was named 925. It was the union that inspired the Parton song, according to Parton herself.
The working class is being divided by race, but at least our elites class is diverse smh
If only unions could apply their rules across the world.
Actuaries put union workers on a path of self destruction so teachers and administrators can pay for a 15 year retirement and get 30.
@@giftedgreen2152 Most people do not actually know what an Actuary is. Thank you for bringing this word to the table.
Much love and prayers to you and yours from somewhere near Seattle and a fairly well- educated person.
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what do you mean the whole world is a gang that extorts its people
Hunger Games
Great perspective
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Average life expectancy of a Teamster is 63. It’s even less for cops, firemen and prison guards. Meanwhile, teachers like this lady live to be 88.
so good for her that she fights for them, and bad for some of those (especially cops) that work for the very interest groups that oppress them?
Nice job comrade.
These are amk the sa.e reasons that big dollars destroyed the la our union power
I'm gonna have to wear my glasses from now on, Sorry.
Her origin is just another coincidence, don't mind correlations.
Learn to make your own coffee.
I'm loving her fashion
Our company said anyone trying to start a union will be fired. I can't afford to lose my job.
Older generations wonder why they are spited after draining their children's future.
smh 💔
you dont need unions or government or people telling you it is good for you
I often come here to improve my accent.
She keeps talking about things that happened over 50 years ago. Only thing unions have done lately is expedite outsourcing and made small business miserable.
Well you have to be on the side of the worker... not big corporations, big gov. And not leftist ideology.
So, anarchists support big corporations and big government?
Today I learned that leftists do not support workers
@@Worthless1010 Most "leftists" are corporate shills. Of course they don't.
we need unions about as bad as we need allopathic medicine for covid
This is literally the stereotypical leftist presenter. So derivative.
Her origins too.
Women are out of control.
I thought so myself. Unions only care about their own workers at expense of taxpayers, they are way too political.
everything ted puts out is too far left
Or we could just eat the rich.
Ma'am, we are on the edge of WW3, please ... take your notes and go feed your cats.