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New World Notes - Cheap Junk & the Deindustrialization of America

08/16/2011 12:00 pm
08/16/2011 12:30 pm

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.