Daily: THE NEW MEANING OF WORK – Ian Dunt meets Jon Cruddas MP

<p>While Labour agonises over whether it can reclaim working class votes, one question gets lost: what is work for? What do we get from it? If “good work” can give life meaning in an automated world, can Labour capture the post-working class world? <strong>Jon Cruddas, </strong>Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, talks to Ian Dunt about his new book <em>The Dignity of Labour</em>, why the somewhere-anywhere mantra is “wretched”, what Starmer can take from FDR… and if the dream of “automated luxury communism” is just Get Out Of Jail politics.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><em>• “Dignity today is often more about how you die than how you live.”&nbsp;</em></p><ul><li><em>“The work that we value most in society – caring for one another - is the work that we value least in pay.”</em></li><li><em>“I fear that the Right want the Left to choose between Somewhere and Anywhere, so they can lock in their power forever.”</em></li></ul><p><em>• “Progressive politics is being outmanoeuvred at every turn. We need to turn the tide.”</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jon-Cruddas/The-Dignity-of-Labour/25421083" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Jon-Cruddas/The-Dignity-of-Labour/25421083</a></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>