Podcast: Working People (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lucy Lloyd
Pub date: 2019-04-06

Notes from The Listener:

Self taught repair technician makes the case for fixing broken Apple devices. She explains the campaign for a codified "right to repair", which would prevent tech companies building in redundancy and give consumers the right to get devices fixed by independent craftspeople. This interview is part of a long running series that seeks to profile America's working class in the 21st century. The host tends to ramble on this theme for a while at the start of episodes, but it's still worth pushing through to the actual conversations

We talk with Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught Apple product repair and support technician living in Sedan, Minnesota, a town with a population of less than fifty people. We talk about everything from growing up in a small town to setting up her independent repair business in the corner of her mom’s flower shop. We also talk a lot about the right to repair, a really important political issue that directly impacts repair workers like Lucy and all of us who use, consume, and depend on technologies from cars to smart phones.

Additional links/info below...

• U.S. PIRG - Right to Repair
• Repair.org
• iFixit
• Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Fight for the 'Right to Repair'"
• Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Corporations are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair"
• Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "The Death of Media"
• Rosie Spinks, The Guardian, "We're All Losers to a Gadget Industry Built on Planned Obsolescence"
• Jason Koebler, Motherboard, "Tractor-Hacking Farmers Are Leading a Revolt Against Big Tech's Repair Monopolies"
• Matthew Gault, Motherboard, "The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World'"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Creo, "Place on Fire"

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