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The Uncertain Hour: Season 3

Season 3 explores how work has changed over time in the USAhttps://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/

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Created June 06, 2021

Updated November 15, 2021

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  1. The Uncertain Hour
    Trailer

    ‘The Uncertain Hour’ is back!

    Jan 27th, 20214m 15s
    Employment as we know it is changing. The kinds of jobs where one person works for one employer for years — with health insurance, sick days, paid vacation and a retirement fund — are getting harder to find. Throughout the economy, companies ha
  2. The Uncertain Hour

    Congratulations! You’re an entrepreneur now

    2
    2Feb 3rd, 202143m 5s
    Jerry Vazquez always dreamed of working for himself. So when he saw a notice in the PennySaver advertising janitorial franchises, he decided to go all in. Pretty soon after, he was in debt to the company and earning less than minimum wage doing
  3. The Uncertain Hour

    Who’s the boss?

    2
    2Feb 10th, 202145m 52s
    Jerry Vazquez was in the cleaning business now, and his clients liked him. They’d leave him notes, some with smiley faces drawn in. But, he says, he was barely getting by on the rates negotiated by Jan-Pro. He started feeling like had little co
  4. The Uncertain Hour

    “To suffer or permit to work”

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    2Feb 17th, 202148m 59s
    This week we’re finally going to tell you what happened to Jerry Vazquez — and how his story relates to the 1930s case of a hotel chambermaid. Jerry and some of his fellow Jan-Pro franchisees decided to sue the company, saying they’d been miscl
  5. The Uncertain Hour

    The liquid workforce

    2
    1Feb 24th, 202140m 26s
    Over a quarter of the world’s largest employers don’t just make or sell products — they also rent out workers. Let’s talk about how we got here.For even more of “The Uncertain Hour,” subscribe to our newsletter! Each week we’ll bring you a not
  6. The Uncertain Hour

    To catch a chicken

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    22Mar 3rd, 202138m 56s
    When chicken catcher Jimmy Nicks’ job was subcontracted, virtually overnight, he started doing the same job for a new boss — only without the pay, protections and benefits he’d come to rely on. This episode looks at the subcontracting system th
  7. The Uncertain Hour

    Big Boss, Little Boss

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    1Mar 10th, 202135m 28s
    After Jimmy Nicks’ job was subcontracted, he took both companies to court — the subcontractor he worked for and its client, Koch Foods. The “little boss” and the “big boss.” His case hinged in part on those familiar six words, “to suffer or per
  8. The Uncertain Hour

    Inside baseball

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    1Mar 17th, 202146m
    In minor league baseball, professional athletes train, suit up and play for wages that would be illegal in most sectors. Players live in crowded apartments, sleep on air mattresses, work side jobs and scrape by. This week, a story about life in
  9. The Uncertain Hour

    My boss is an app

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    2Mar 24th, 202148m 13s
    The gig-app workforce has arrived at our doorstep. But Silicon Valley’s innovations in hiring are only the latest round of this long-running battle over what employment means in the American economy. This concludes our fifth season of “The Un

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