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'Class' with Joe Bageant

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Partner:: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Location:: Brisbane Writers Festival
Brisbane, Queensland
Event Date:: 09.02.10
Speakers:: Steve Austin,; Joe Bageant
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Summary: Joe Bageant is a renowned commentator on the politics of class in the US. His previous novel, Deer Hunting with Jesus, has been been turned into a play and an upcoming tv series. His regular online columns have made him a cult hero among political progressives and gonzo-journalism junkies.

Bageant's latest book Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir is a coming-of-age story set in post-World War II America in the small white tribes of West Virginia, where a massive social and economic shift from agrarian to urbanization has meant the heavy loss of meaningful work and community.

Representing the 'hillbilly' class as a minority, Bageant laments 'the piece of the rainbow pie' promised to the working class of his forefathers, which never materialized. He praises the 'white trash' trucker heroes, who stood up to the corporate oppressors by unionizing, helping to form a middle class, and finally affording an education for their children.

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Steve Austin

Steve Austin began his career in radio in 1982, when he joined community station 4ZZZ. Austin joined ABC Radio in Townsville, where he worked for seven years, becoming the inaugural producer of the Queensland ABC Television Stateline program before moving across to 612 ABC Brisbane, where he's served as the station's Program Director and has presented the Drive, Morning and Evening programs.

Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant is a commentator on the politics of class in America and the author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: dispatches from America's class war and most recently Rainbow Pie: a redneck memoir.

Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir set between 1950 and 1963 in a small Appalachian farming community situated along a West Virginia road named Shanghai (from the seventeenth-century Scots Irish, 'Shangi,' meaning to celebrate).

Combining recollection, stories, accounts, remembrance, and some analysis, Bageant gives an intimate look at what America lost in its post-war transformation-the shift from a nation of interconnecting families and communities to a consumer culture of 'individuals'. The focus on Bageant's family and the Shanghai Road community illustrates the loss of meaningful work and community as post-World War II America experiences a massive social and economic shift from agrarian to urban consciousness.

Bageant's previous novel, Deer Hunting with Jesus: dispatches from America's class war has been adapted for the theatre and is being developed as a dramatic television series in America. He also writes an online column (www.joebageant.com) that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 46 sec

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02.: The Collapse of the Agrarian Lifestyle

02 min 51 sec

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03.: The Spiritual Nature of Life in Rural Virginia

03 min 00 sec

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04.: How the Poor Are Used in War

02 min 14 sec

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05.: How the Poor Are Used in Industry

03 min 22 sec

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06.: Class Consciousness Within the Appalachian Region

01 min 30 sec

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07.: The Need to Separate Business and State

02 min 20 sec

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08.: The Causes and Effects of Religious Fundamentalism

02 min 37 sec

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09.: The Effect of the Marihuana Tax Act

05 min 47 sec

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10.: 'Rainbow Pie': The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class

04 min 30 sec

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11.: Identifying as 'White Trash'

03 min 58 sec

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12.: The Role of Class in Racism

02 min 26 sec

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13.: Discovering the Power of Reading

04 min 30 sec

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14.: The Problem with Computers in Schools

01 min 22 sec

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15.: The Keys to Improving American Society

02 min 13 sec

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16.: The Importance of Caring for Your Fellow Man

02 min 16 sec

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17.: The Faultiness of Memory

02 min 21 sec

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18.: Q & A

00 min 14 sec

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19.: Q1: How the Financial Crisis Will Affect the Lower Class

02 min 57 sec

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20.: Q2: Concerns Over Australia's Financial Future

03 min 41 sec

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Smoke and Mirrors: DuPont's War Against Hemp

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How did hemp go from being a popular industrial material to a banned substance in 1937? Joe Bageant describes how it was used in everything from paper to automobiles, and explains that a concerted, corporate campaign caused hemp to be viewed as dangerous.
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Encyclopædia Britannica Article

class, social: Group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status. The term was first widely used in the early 19th century, following the industrial and political revolutions of the late 18th century. The most influential early theory of class was that of Karl Marx, who focused on how one class controls and directs the process of production while other classes are the direct producers and the providers of services to the dominant class. The relations between the classes were thus seen as antagonistic. Max Weber emphasized the importance of political power and social status or prestige in maintaining class distinctions. Despite controversies over the theory of class, there is general agreement on the characteristics of the classes in modern capitalist societies. In many cases the upper class has been distinguished by the possession of largely inherited wealth, while the working class has consisted mostly of manual labourers and semiskilled or unskilled workers, often in service industries, who earn moderate or low wages and have little access to inherited wealth. The middle class includes the middle and upper levels of clerical workers, those engaged in technical and professional occupations, supervisors and managers, and such self-employed workers as small-scale shopkeepers, businesspeople, and farmers. There is also often an urban substratum of permanently jobless and underemployed workers termed the “underclass.” See also bourgeoisie.; class, social on britannica.com