Labor Podcast
1) Season 1 Finale! What the Pandemic Taught Us About Parenthood
In the season ender Elise and Amy take a look back at what they've learned most this season, where we're at now, and where things might go from here.
2) A Silver Lining? How the Pandemic Might Change Work Culture
Leslie Forde joins us to talk about what she calls the "Mom's Hierarchy of Needs," and what she's hearing from companies about their desire and commitment to come out of the pandemic with dramatically...Show More
3) How to Take a Real Break
Petra Bueskens, is a psychologist and social scientist in Australia, and a well-known motherhood researcher worldwide. She coined the term "strategic absence" to describe a tactic she saw while studyi...Show More
4) A Lesson in Communal Parenting from Native American Culture
Midwife and public health research Janelle Palacios grew up on the Flathead reservation and specializes in native families. In this episode, she walks us through how American social workers pathologiz...Show More
5) The Complexities of Covering Moms, Way Beyond Mom Blogs
Writer Heather B. Armstrong (aka Dooce) and author & Longest Shortest Time creator Hillary Frank join us to talk about the history of the mom beat and why it's still not taken seriously.
6) No School Or After School. Now What?
School's not back after the summer, exposing even more need for after school programs that have filled the gap for working families. But those programs face a precarious funding future. Nikki Yamashir...Show More
7) What the Climate Crisis Can Teach Us About Fixing the Parenting Crisis
Dr. Beth Sawin has spent decades studying systems change, and what she's learned about the climate crisis and various other crises gave us a surprising feeling ... dare we say hope?
8) A Japanese Home Ec Experiment
Japanese fatherhood researcher Masako Ishii-Kuntz explains why Scandinavian-style family support families failed in Japan (complete with applicable lessons for the U.S.), and why she's placing her fai...Show More
9) In A Pandemic, All Parents Left Behind
Sociologist Julie Kohler is a senior advisor at The Democracy Alliance. She joins us to talk about where the idea that every (nuclear) family should fend for themselves even came from, and what the pa...Show More
10) Welcome to Labor
We were already digging into the research on various problems facing American families, and then COVID-19 hit and ratcheted all of it up a notch. This season we'll look at where the nuclear family ide...Show More