Joe Clement talks with Kathi Weeks about her book "The Problem with Work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries". They discuss the work ethic and why it promises more than it delivers. They also consider the tradition of antiwork politics and how feminists helped widen the scope of what we consider work and who we consider part of the working-class and involved in class-struggle.

 Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing, an editor of Middle East Research and Information Project, talk about the recent UN recognition (of sorts) of Palestine, as well as the future of a participatory democracy in Palestine.

Bill Resnick talks with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business and editor of Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism, among other works. They discuss the Wal-Mart business model, its productive efficiency and success in the USA, the resistance Wal-Mart has faced in other parts of the world, and its strategies for blocking unionization and exploiting just-in-time labor. They also consider the harms to labor caused by uncertain hours as well as low wages, and the courage of those Wal-Mart workers who have stood up to the corporation. Each worker who protests represents many more, and the successful recent Black Friday actions indicate important alliances between self-organized workers and other activists.

Movie moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss the new film Argo, about the CIA's "exfiltration" of six US embassy workers hidden in Tehran by Canadian diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis. Although the popular movie offers some valuable historical information critical of the CIA and US policy, the tone of the film created by its departures from fact and adherence to genre conventions ultimately leads viewers to align emotionally with nationalist and individualist values.