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Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad

How does capitalism affect our personal lives? How does the economy affect life at home, relationships at work, romance and dating? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad is a bi-weekly podcast that explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn how to support the podcast, visit us at: www.democracyatwork.info/capitalismhitshome

Capitalism Hits Home is a Democracy at Work (d@w) production. d@w produces media and live events to expose capitalism’s systemic problems and to show how democratizing our workplaces solves them. We can do better than capitalism.
 
HOST: Dr Harriet Fraad is a Mental Health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. Dr. Fraad was a founding mother of the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven, CT. She writes and speaks on the intersection of politics, economics and personal life in the USA. She appears regularly on ActTV, Women’s Spaces on WBBK, Sonoma County and North San Francisco, and MK Mendoza, on KSFR, New Mexico. Her latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics. NY: Routledge 2019. Her work can be found on her website, harrietfraad.com.

Jun 24, 2021

In this episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad defines what class is and explores where it has hit in America. America has included 4 class formations: slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and communism. Except for the brief period of the New Deal, we have not experienced socialism, where a strong state regulates capitalism to...


Jun 10, 2021

We are back with a new season of CHH! In this episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad explores the question of identity politics. Identity politics can be liberating for those who identify as women, people of color, or GLBTQ members. Those identities need to be called out and claimed with pride. But Fraad asks why is our class...