Jeremy Milloy on the Political Economy of Workplace Violence

Jeremy Milloy on the Political Economy of Workplace Violence

Just last week in the Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the court undermined the power of organized labor in the public sector by making it, for all intents and purposes "right to work." As our former guest, Sarah Jaffe wrote in the New York Times about the decision: "the corporate class … and its allies on the Supreme Court have dealt labor another body blow."

On this episode, we speak about the literal violence that can manifest on the job if oppressive workplace conditions are left unaddressed. Jeremy Milloy argues that workplace violence from the 1960s-1980s needs to be considered not only as a private matter, but as a matter of politics and economics.

Jeremy Milloy is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. He is author of Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-80

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