Search
When the University of Hartford was incorporated just over 50 years ago by business and community leaders, they envisioned a center of education and culture for Greater Hartford. Read more...
Persons with disabilities who wish to access the WWUH Public File may contact John Ramsey at: ramsey@hartford.edu
New World Notes - Cheap Junk & the Deindustrialization of America
This week on New World Notes: radio program #180, August 16, from 12:00 to 12:30 PM, host Kenneth Dowst explores 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.
The program includes unflattering words on G.E. by labor leader Marie Lausch and a passage on IKEA from Ellen Ruppel Shell's book, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.