Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.
Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much.
This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers.
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My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now
I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane
Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December
I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January
Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger
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Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe
ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA & Fair Work Commissions by Ben & Royce Millar
Cause of the Week: Join your union (australianunions.org.au)
IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (raffwu.org.au)
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262 - Professor John Quiggin
261 - Alison Pennington Returns
260 - "I, Millennial" Event LIVE in Warrnambool
259 - Polly Hemming
258 - "I, Millennial" Extract: Privatisation
257 - Craig Foster
256 - Talking "I, Millennial" w/Osman Faruqi
255 - "I, Millennial" Prologue
253 - Leo Puglisi
252 - Jim Casey
251 - Georgia Steele
250 - David Shoebridge MLC
249 - Palestine Justice Movement Sydney Forum: "Why We Are Boycotting The Sydney Festival"
248 - Johann Hari Returns (On "Stolen Focus")
247 - Van Badham Returns (on #QAnon)
246 - James Button (on Cancel Culture)
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