What does the future manufacturing economy look like?

On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation about the state of manufacturing in the U.S. During the past decade, 49 of the 50 states have lost manufacturing jobs. Today, manufacturing accounts for 12 percent of the U.S. economy. How did we end up in this situation? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do we need to do to bring manufacturing back in a rapidly evolving, competitive world? And how will it look? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kent Hughes, director of the Wilson Center's program on America and the Global Economy.

Christian E. Weller, a senior fellow at American Progress and an associate professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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Manufactured in America?

Can you have a healthy economy without manufacturing? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how recession has accelerated the departure of manufacturing jobs from the U.S. How does that change our economy? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Should restoring manufacturing jobs to the U.S. be a priority? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Bacon, San Francisco labor journalist

Harley Shaiken, professor of labor and global economics at UC Berkeley

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Your Call 061108 The Uprising

What's the biggest movement you've never heard of in America? On the next Your Call we speak with David Sirota, author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington. Sirota traveled around the country listening to the people normally spoken for or spoken to: union members in rust belt cities, Minutemen on the California-Mexico border, and suburban homeowners watching their equity turn to smoke. The rise in inequality has got them angry, right and left. Does it amount to a new populist revolt or another silent majority too ready to be comforted by the status quo? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
David Sirota in San Francisco
Author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington. He is a columnist and former campaign adviser for Ned Lamont, who defeated Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic primary and former chief spokesman for Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee. He is also the author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government--And How We Take It Back and The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want.

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Your Call 050108 Where is Labor today?

Where is Labor today? On the Next Your Call, on May Day, we will have a discussion with Fernando Gapasin, co-author of the book Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice. The book examines the changes in U.S. manufacturing and influence of the environment on labor. How important is organized labor today? And what does it mean to you? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Fernando Gapasin, co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice; A new direction for labor by two of its leading activist intellectuals

Dr. Steven Pitts, a Labor Policy Specialist at Center for Labor Studies at UC Berkeley

Clarence Thomas, co-chair of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

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