On his book The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon
Cover Interview of June 04, 2018
Lastly
Everyone is trying to come up with ideas on how to reinvent
labor in the twenty-first century. I hope my book will make the use of working-class
shareholder power a core part of that discussion. I hope union leaders will
invest in it. I hope progressives will rally to protect and defend the pensions
that enable this power. I hope that policymakers will think carefully about how
to nourish the deployment of capital by workers for workers. I hope that
students might consider this work for a career. I also hope it will influence
academics and others to think carefully and strategically about how to reshape
markets from within.
Spontaneous generation is one of those wrong theories that clutter the basements of the biological sciences and that now look so very obviously wrong that it is hard to see how anyone could have taken them seriously in the first place. Why wouldn’t it occur to anyone that flies might be laying eggs that were too small for us to see? How simple would the crucial experiment be? What I have tried to do in much of my work is to turn this ‘obvious wrongness’ on its head—why, exactly, does it seem so obviously wrong?—and see what the new picture that emerges from that inquiry says about science and our belief in its results.Daryn Lehoux, Interview of November 13, 2017
It’s commonplace to say that humor is subjective, since what’s funny to you might not be funny to me. But humor is also a loaded concept. If you – or your people – have no sense of humor, or the wrong one, that means you’re less rational, tolerant, understanding, or civilized. You don’t get it. Or, worse, you lack something human. Modern Chinese debates about humor were very much caught up with these fundamental questions of value.Christopher Rea, Interview of October 26, 2016
Lastly
Everyone is trying to come up with ideas on how to reinvent labor in the twenty-first century. I hope my book will make the use of working-class shareholder power a core part of that discussion. I hope union leaders will invest in it. I hope progressives will rally to protect and defend the pensions that enable this power. I hope that policymakers will think carefully about how to nourish the deployment of capital by workers for workers. I hope that students might consider this work for a career. I also hope it will influence academics and others to think carefully and strategically about how to reshape markets from within.