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Goods for the People.com.

Welcome to another episode of the vast majority.

I'm Jackman Deputy Editor Micah Eutrich.

Well the presidential election is over, Joe Biden is going to be our president

which means that we can now transition into thinking about all of the awful things

about our world that Joe Biden, who as president, will not address, like the incredible

time crunch that American workers all over the country all over a variety of industries face.

That is something that sociologist Jamie McCollum writes about in his new book worked over.

I interviewed Jamie for In These Times magazine about the book.

Thanks to In These Times for letting us run the recording of our interview and I will link to the written

version of that interview in the show notes. Okay, here's my interview with Jamie McCollum.

Jamie, hello.

Hi, Micah.

So why don't you just start with explaining what is going on with time for the American

worker? What is the what is the time situation for the American worker?

So I wrote about the sort of let's say three dimensions of it.

One a rise of overall hours since the 70s.

It increased in volatility and sort of unpredictable nature of worker

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