Ben Schneiders's guest appearances

Ben Schneiders

Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

Adelaide Writers' Week

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Greg Jericho

Alison Pennington

Sally McManus

Chair: Paul Barclay Brought to you by The Australia Institute in partnership with Adelaide Writers’ Week Australia is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, at the wealthiest time in human history, so why do so many of us feel like we still can’t get ahead? Skyrocketing inflation and plummeting real wages have put households and hip pockets under serious pressure. In our modern, neoliberal economy, is this a bug or an intentional design feature? Australia’s leading thinkers in the industrial relations and workers’ rights space come together to discuss how we can make the future of life and work better for all Australians. Event details: Mon 06 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage

Chair: Paul Barclay Brought to you by The Australia Institute in partnership with Adelaide Writers’ Week Australia is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, at the wealthiest time in human history, so why do so many of us feel like we still can’t get ahead? Skyrocketing inflation and plummeting real wages have put households and hip pockets under serious pressure. In our modern, neoliberal economy, is this a bug or an intentional design feature? Australia’s leading thinkers in the industrial relations and workers’ rights space come together to discuss how we can make the future of life and work better for all Australians. Event details: Mon 06 Mar, 10:45am on the North Stage

AWW23: The Future of Work - Greg Jericho, Sally McManus, Alison Pennington & Ben Schneiders

Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.  Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much. This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron  My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires &amp; Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney &amp; Brisbane Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December  I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @BenSchneiders  Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA &amp; Fair Work Commissions by Ben &amp; Royce Millar Cause of the Week: Join your union (australianunions.org.au) IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (raffwu.org.au)

Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.  Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much. This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/549362589148855/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/tomballard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron</a> <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/I-Millennial/Tom-Ballard/9781761100635" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires &amp; Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now</a> <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/p/tom-ballard-author-tour" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney &amp; Brisbane</a> <a href="https://tccinc.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/91613" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December</a> <a href="https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2023/tom-ballard-work-in-progress/brunswick-heads" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January</a> <a href="https://linktr.ee/SeriousDanger" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/benschneiders" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@BenSchneiders</a> <a href="https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/hard-labour-9781922585325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe</a> <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2016/shopped-out/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA &amp; Fair Work Commissions by Ben &amp; Royce Millar</a> Cause of the Week: Join your union (<a href="https://www.australianunions.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">australianunions.org.au</a>) IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (<a href="https://raffwu.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">raffwu.org.au</a>)