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Labor History Today

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Gripping stories of the historic battles for worker rights and how they fuel today’s struggles. Part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network: #LaborRadioPod

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40:59

Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco

Labor History Today ·

2023/05/07

Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis discusses her career reporting on agricultural and food labor in North Carolina, her approach to labor journalism, and how she uses histories in her work. From the Working History podcast, produced by the Southern Labor Studies Association. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Putting America Back to Work. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor

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28:17

Working Class Giant

Labor History Today ·

2023/04/30

First published in 1981, Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster is the classic biography of the radical American labor organizer and Communist politician. A new edition includes a foreword by today’s guest, union activist and organizer Chris Townsend, who talks about how Foster’s life and legacy continues to inspire a new generation of workers. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Coxey’s Army Marches on the Nation’s Capitol (1894), and the day that updated National Labor Relations

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27:48

Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas (Encore)

Labor History Today ·

2023/04/23

(Originally released on April 18, 2021) Brockman Sewell’s original dramatic performance based on the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado, which occurred 119 years ago on April 20, 1914. Labor History Today contributor Saul Schniderman with his tribute to labor and protest singer Anne Feeney. On today’s Labor History in 2: We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Chris Garlock and the Kalmanovitz Initiative

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33:42

Bitter Kisses for Labor

Labor History Today ·

2023/04/16

Dr. Carol Quirke, Professor of History at SUNY-Old Westbury, on "Bitter Kisses for Labor: Mass Consumer Capitalism and the Hershey Chocolate Sit-down Strike, 1937," part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Quirke tracks the use of photography to present unions and strikes as violent and un-American, and describes how Hershey management fought off the attempt at unionization. PLUS: More Perfect Union’s "Hershey

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50:12

Tom Breiding’s songs of struggle

Labor History Today ·

2023/04/09

Labor history in song, from the “Coal Miners’ Balladeer,” performed live at the April 1, 2023 “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” put on by the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and The Battle of Homestead Foundation in Windber, Pennsylvania. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1937. That was the day sparring between Henry Ford and John L. Lewis spilled over into the press. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of

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32:42

The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike

Labor History Today ·

2023/04/02

Yesterday I drove a few hours west through howling wind and driving rain to the little town of Windber, Pennsylvania; a couple miles from Johnstown. The Pennsylvania Labor History Society and The Battle of Homestead Foundation were holding their “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” and despite the rough weather the basement hall at the Slovak Educational Club soon filled up with folks eager to hear a daylong program that included commemorating the United Mine Workers 1922-23

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39:55

Erasing Virginia’s labor history

Labor History Today ·

2023/03/26

History standards in Virginia are updated every seven years. The new proposed standards put forth by Governor Glenn Youngkin and his Virginia Department of Education would remove the American labor movement; the state’s labor movement is fighting back, and last week on the Your Rights At Work radio show, we talked with the Virginia Education Association’s Shane Riddle and Brian Peyton from Teamsters 322. In our second segment, Labor History Today producers Mel Smith and Patrick Dixon get a hands-on

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39:28

The Strange Career of “the Working Class”

Labor History Today ·

2023/03/19

Originally broadcast March 17, 2019 On this week’s show: Robyn Leigh Muncy, whose article “The Strange Career of ‘the Working Class’ in US Political Culture Since the 1950s” was published in the December issue of "Labor: Studies in Working Class History." Professor Muncy is Director of the Honors Program in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Plus, in this week’s “Cool things from the George Meany Labor Archives,” Alan, Chloe and Ben discover something unexpected

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26:46

Fred Redmond: “Why Labor History Is Important”

Labor History Today ·

2023/03/12

The AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer – and former steel worker – tells the Battle of Homestead Foundation “We have to tell the truth about labor history, the good, and the bad, and the ugly.” Plus: Pete Seeger sings The Homestead Strike Song. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1912. The Lawrence textile workers strike had worn on for over a month. More than 20,000 workers had walked off the job… Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of

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32:58

The Tractor Princess

Labor History Today ·

2023/03/05

Today’s show celebrates Women’s History Month and comes to us from Re:Work, the podcast from the UCLA Labor Center that for the last decade has elevated stories of work to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues. It's produced by Veena Hampapur and Saba Waheed. Their latest episode is “The Tractor Princess” and it draws on excerpts from an oral history interview with Antoinette Yvonne DeOcampo-Lechtenberg, which is a part of a community archive and research initiative called

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36:24

Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary

Labor History Today ·

2023/02/26

Two more stories for Black History Month: From former auto worker Jonathan Melrod, the fascinating story of David Fagen, who joined the U.S. Army to escape Jim Crow discrimination, and was sent to the Philippines, where not only did he and his fellow Black soldiers suffer from endemic racism in the military, but found that they were fighting on the wrong side of the U.S. war of Philippine conquest. Then, Labor History Today correspondent Alan Wierdak talks with Caleb Smith, a PhD student at Tulane

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32:35

Celebrating Black History Month (Encore)

Labor History Today ·

2023/02/19

(Originally aired February 17, 2019) On this week’s show: William P. Jones on “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History Of Civil Rights,” plus a 1961 memo to George Meany about the Freedom Rides, and a confidential “report on union racial progress.” Interviews by Chris Garlock and Alan Wierdak. Sweet Honey In The Rock - Eye On The Prize "CORE: Freedom Ride," 1961 Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email

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29:06

Domestic worker, Mother of the Movement

Labor History Today ·

2023/02/12

She started as a young domestic worker in apartheid South Africa, became General Secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union and was the first president of the International Domestic Workers Federation; Myrtle Witbooi – who died on January 16 – in her own voice and remembered by the Solidarity Center’s Alexis De Simone. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you

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36:44

Reconciling a Slaveholding Past (Encore)

Labor History Today ·

2023/02/05

(Originally aired October 13, 2019) Jody Allen, Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and Director of The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation. Jody discusses William and Mary's slaveholding past and the genesis, research, and ongoing community outreach of The Lemon Project with Working History podcast host Beth English. Plus: SEIU 32BJ’s Maria Naranjo on the origins of "chingchinas" -- soda can noisemakers -- during the Justice for Janitors campaigns of the

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18:01

A meatpacker’s American dream

Labor History Today ·

2023/01/29

On the America Works podcast, West African immigrant Komla Ewu tells oral historian John McKerley about how he left a prestigious but unprofitable teaching career in his native Togo to pursue the American dream. On this week’s Labor History in Two: President Jackson sets a union-busting precedent & Anna LoPizzo is murdered by police during the Bread and Roses strike. Send your labor history questions, comments, or suggestions to us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by

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26:53

Bill Lucy on MLK; Shubert Sebree on Debs

Labor History Today ·

2023/01/22

Today’s show covers a lot of ground, from legendary labor leader Bill Lucy’s memories of Dr. King and the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike to Shubert Sebree’s memories of Gene Debs, founder of the powerful American Railway Union and three-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States. Bill Lucy has some inspiring advice for those who are carrying on Dr. King’s fight for justice, especially younger activists, and Shubert Sebree reveals a gentler side to Debs, as fierce a labor leader

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35:38

Strong Winds and Widow Makers

Labor History Today ·

2023/01/15

Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues, argues Steven C. Beda his new book Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country. In a discussion with the Labor Radio Podcast Network this week, Beda talked about how life experiences like hunting, fishing, foraging, and hiking imbued timber country with meanings and values that

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43:43

The Cambridge Movement

Labor History Today ·

2023/01/08

Professor of African American History and Culture Bernard Demczuk on how Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, was known as “Maryland’s Mississippi” because of pervasive racial oppression and discrimination, about the civil rights and labor organizing that began in Cambridge, Maryland, and how that town became the site of the longest period of martial law within the United States since 1877, and how that that history carries on today in movements like Black Lives

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31:13

“No Labor Dictators for Us”

Labor History Today ·

2023/01/01

The success of the Flint Sit-Down Strike that began on December 30, 1936 was far from assured at the time; GM management fought the union bitterly, and then, as now, there were workers who didn’t support the union. In “’No Labor Dictators for Us’: Anti-Union Workers During the Flint Sit-Down Strikes” -- a forthcoming article in the Michigan Historical Review -- Dr. Gregory Wood takes a closer look at the influence of anti-union workers and the General Motors-supported Flint Alliance both during and

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33:21

A Working-Class Christmas Story Christmas

Labor History Today ·

2022/12/25

I don't love economic exploitation, but I do love Christmas and Christmas movies. They work to sell me stuff and ideology, but they also critique commercialism and exploitation. See what subversive messages you can find in a holiday classic; I triple dog dare you. Kathy M. Newman joins Labor Goes to the Movies hosts Elise Bryant and Chris Garlock to explore A Working-Class Christmas Story Christmas, from the Working-Class Perspectives blog. Kathy’s an associate professor of literary and cultural

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