{"podcast":{"title":"Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff","slug":"economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856","podcast_index_feed_id":7137856,"rss_url":"https://richardwolffeconomicupdate.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/4/4/9/144922e4a934d1ae16c3140a3186d450/EU_Sqr_Logo_1400x1400px.png","author":"Democracy at Work","episode_count":589,"summary":"Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our economy's problems including alternative ways to organize production and distribution of the goods and services we all depend on.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T04:18:25.685572+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856"},"episode":{"title":"Supermarket Jobs, Super Exploitation","slug":"supermarket-jobs-super-exploitation","published_at":"2026-07-05T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856/supermarket-jobs-super-exploitation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/84104/supermarket-jobs-super-exploitation","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/economicupdate/Economic_Update__Supermarket_Jobs_Super_Exploitation.mp4?dest-id=398074","summary":"This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the so-called Social Security Crisis, the gross inequality of stock ownership in the U.S. today, the exploited and underpaid non-tenure track faculty (\"adjuncts,\" etc.) who are joining unions, especially the UAW, which won a union election on June 3 at the University of Southern California, which includes 2,700 members. The second half of the show features an interview with Ann Larson, author of the new book, Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View Behind the Supermarket Register. You can find here book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cleanup-on-Aisle-Five/Ann-Larson/9781668094501","meta_description":"This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the so-called Social Security Crisis, the gross inequality of stock ownership in the U.S. toda…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1889,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856/episodes/supermarket-jobs-super-exploitation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856/supermarket-jobs-super-exploitation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}