Shifting Terrain is back for a new season to explore the forces both capturing and dividing the working class. Hosted by sociologist Rachel Rybaczuk, she’ll talk with experts and everyday people about everything from the alarming reach of Christian nationalism to the inescapable influence of the manosphere, whether unions are actually the way to build power and if immigrants are really taking your job. Shifting Terrain moves beyond simplistic stereotypes to amplify the cultural, political, and economic issues facing America's working class today.
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Signup to Generate a PitchShifting Terrain is back for a new season to explore the forces both capturing and dividing the working class.
Recent episodes include "AI is About to Make The Working Class a Lot Bigger" (23 December 2025, 44 minutes), "Who Is The Working Class, Actually?" (18 December 2025, 38 minutes), and "Laughing When You Want to Cry: Comedy for Class Struggle" (9 December 2025, 39 minutes).
Shifting Terrain publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 17 episodes.
Booking probability for Shifting Terrain is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Shifting Terrain requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Shifting Terrain's contact route on record: verified email.
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Shifting Terrain is a news podcast with 17 episodes published.
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Episode #8
You’ve probably heard that AI is coming for your job. That it will replace you. And probably ruin a lot of our lives. Or, that it’s going to make life, and especially work, easier. Ushering in a new age of productivity...
Episode #7
How do you define the working class? Is it based on education, income, job, or taste? Is there even a definitive answer? Several guests are on the show to help figure it out. Starting with Rachel Sherman, a professor of...
Episode #6
This season focuses on what’s capturing and dividing the working class. But if we’re interested in more unity, what’s a good way to bring everyone together? How about a joke? Rachel invited Gavin Matts onto this episode...
Episode #5
Shifting Terrain had its finger on the pulse of working class voters in 2024, but a lot of people were shocked by the outcome of the presidential election. A lot of analysis has gone into what exactly moved millions of...
Shifting Terrain
We discuss Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World—a guide for a new generation of activists seeking not just to understand power, but to build it. Stephanie's civic action toolkit recommendations are...
Episode #4
Think the recent wave of Starbucks and Amazon unionizing signals a tidal shift in worker power? A new wave of labor movement activity to take down corporations? Our guests have some news for you. While unions have long...
Episode #3
What is happening with immigration policy and enforcement? Are we witnessing an unprecedented level of surveillance and violence? Or does social media just make people more aware of what’s always been happening...
Episode #2
There is a noticeable discussion of Christian Nationalism in popular culture. Is its growing influence actually undermining democracy? In this episode, Samuel Perry reveals the surprising relationship between capitalism...
Episode #1
What happens when you combine the political opinions of a weightlifting social media star with the analysis of a professor who researches Fox News and political Youtube? A conversation that reveals some uncomfortable...
Episode #6
Building power to win for the working class isn’t simply a theory. People have been doing it for years. JaNaé Bates, Co-Executive Director of ISAIAH and Faith In Minnesota, explains the strategy for improving the lives...
Episode #5
There’s a real reckoning going on in the Democratic Party. Their reputation for being the party of the working class had been waning for years. It took a crushing defeat - emotionally and electorally - for the party...
Episode #4
If you had to guess how many politicians are working class, what would you say? Ten percent? Five? In this episode we talk to Eric Hansen, a researcher who ran the data to determine how many working class politicians...
Episode #3
There’s a lot of finger pointing about which media outlet is to blame for the rise in political polarization, racism, and the class war. The brash boldness of Fox News is a likely target, but what about the hushed tones...
Episode #2
Damaging stereotypes about rural and urban voters abound in politics. What’s really going on in the charged landscape known as the rural-urban divide? Are rural voters actually voting against their interests when they...
Episode #1
Political strategists Jordan Berg Powers and Mike Lux discuss how major political campaigns have abandoned working class voters, the undeserved power of polls, and why you should never play Trump’s voice in a Democratic...
Shifting Terrain
In Shifting Terrain, we explore race and class in politics, beyond the simplistic stereotypes in the news, and between election cycles. Voters, political strategists, organizers, and politicians will speak to the ways...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Vice President of Client Relations, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Associate Vice President for Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer, University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco
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