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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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Red Jerseys in Detroit

Labor History Today ·

2022/12/18

Argentina plays France today in the 2022 World Cup final. The U.S. team bowed out on December 3 when they went down 3-1 to the Netherlands. But soccer, it turns out, has a long history in the United States, thanks to its popularity among immigrant workers from European countries. From 1927 to 1935, the United States Communist Party (CPUSA) established the Labor Sport Union, a coalition of worker athletic clubs, primarily located in the urban Northeast and Midwest. The CPUSA’s 1925 sport manifesto

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25:34

Julia Reichert: “Documentarian of the Working Class”

Labor History Today ·

2022/12/11

Julia Reichert, dubbed “Documentarian of the Working Class” by The New York Times, died of cancer on December 1. 9 to 5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum interviewed Julia in 2020 after her film American Factory won an Oscar; Part 1 ran in our April 26, 2020 episode. This week, we’re re-running Part 2. Reichert made documentary films for 50 years and was known as “a godmother of the American independent film movement.” Karen and Julia start out talking about the classic labor film Union Maids and the

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26:31

“Capital’s Terrorists”

Labor History Today ·

2022/12/04

Professor and labor historian Chad Pearson traces “the continuity of thuggery” by bosses in his new book “Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century”. Pearson recently talked with fellow Texan Gene Lantz on Workers Beat, a weekly radio show on KNON Radio in Dallas, Texas. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Organizing to end slavery. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us

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15:52

The labor “Parade” that flopped

Labor History Today ·

2022/11/30

Two years before the pro-labor musical revue “Pins & Needles” became a big Broadway hit in 1937, “Parade”, another musical featuring pro-labor songs, flopped after just 40 performances and the Theatre Guild -- which did so well with “Pins & Needles” just a few years later -- lost $100,000 dollars. In today’s brief bonus edition of Labor History Today, we bring you the fascinating prelude to the success of “Pins & Needles”, starting with workers social clubs in Europe and in the United States, and

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35:22

Pins & Needles’ mass appeal

Labor History Today ·

2022/11/27

Eighty five years ago today, the pro-labor musical revue “Pins & Needles” opened on Broadway with a cast of members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. “Pins & Needles” became a big hit, with over a thousand performances. It was performed at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, and was revived on Broadway in 1978 and in London in 2010. On today’s show, Michigan State University College of Music Professor Maria Cristina Fava explains the

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33:12

Finnish North American working class women and music...

Labor History Today ·

2022/11/20

Music historian Saijaleena Rantanen discusses songs by and about Finnish immigrant working-class women alongside musical samples from working-class women of Finnish background in early 20th century North America. The presentation was part of the 2022 FinnFest USA, and the FinnFest music series is co-hosted by the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Thanks also to John Beck and the Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives lunchtime series at

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01:07:13

For Gene Debs

Labor History Today ·

2022/11/13

November 5 was the 167th anniversary of the birth of Eugene Victor Debs - labor leader, socialist, three-time candidate for president and the first president of the American Railway Union, which staged some of the biggest strikes in American labor history. Today Bernie Sanders and the late great Anne Feeney are among those who celebrate Debs’ life and work. They come to us courtesy of a terrific show, The Radical Songbook Podcast. It’s hosted by Michael Funke, who’s got 15 years of radio experience

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26:20

Who belongs in the labor movement?

Labor History Today ·

2022/11/06

Resilient worker coalitions are often found at the intersection of labor and race. On today’s show, from the NC Labor History Revealed podcast, we’ll hear about how North Carolinians formed multi-racial coalitions to fight racism inside and outside the workplace, and how farmworkers leveraged such coalitions to overcome racist inadequacies in federal labor law to secure the largest union contract in North Carolina history. On this week’s Labor History in Two: The Fight for Equality and Honest

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35:49

Pride on the line

Labor History Today ·

2022/10/30

Today’s show is excerpted from an online talk last month: “Pride on the Line: The UAW and Queer-Labor Solidarity after Stonewall” by Jamie McQuaid, part of the Our Daily Work Our Daily Lives Brown Bag series from Michigan State University. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Wall Street Lays an Egg. 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 History Today is produced by Union City

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26:25

The longest nurses’ strike

Labor History Today ·

2022/10/23

On March 8, 2021, protesting dangerous working conditions and staffing ratios, over 700 nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts hit the picket line for what would become the longest nurses’ strike in the state’s history. This is their story. Today’s show is excerpted from an hourlong video by Gino Canella for TRNN, The Real News Network. These interviews with St. Vincent nurses comprise a ripped-from-the-headlines oral history of a ferocious labor battle that carries lessons for workers

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35:57

Labor History Today: No Equal Justice

Labor History Today ·

2022/10/16

The legal and civil rights legacy of George W. Crockett Jr., from the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. Peter Hammer describes the life and legacy of Crockett, a Black lawyer who fought racism and defended constitutional rights in landmark cases from the 1940s through the 1960s. Hammer is an A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair in the Wayne State University Law School and director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. Labor History Today is produced by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for

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24:25

Sharecroppers’ struggles for rights and power

Labor History Today ·

2022/10/09

Patrick Dixon talks with James Benton about the emergence of sharecropping as a compromise between former slaves – freedmen – and landowners, and sharecroppers subsequent struggles for rights and power. Benton is the Director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project at the The Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown University. For our Labor History Object of the week, Ben Blake at the Meany Labor Archives pulls out a collection of buttons from the Solidarnosc union movement in Poland. NOTE: This

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39:24

Socialist fairy tales

Labor History Today ·

2022/10/02

From the Working Class History podcast, acclaimed author, poet and Professor of Children’s Literature Michael Rosen talks about his anthology, Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain, which gathers together short stories from the labor and socialist press between 1880 and 1920. The Working Class History podcast is put out by an international collective of worker-activists whose social media and podcast project uncovers our collective history of fighting for a

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31:59

Pueblo steelworkers’ historic strike

Labor History Today ·

2022/09/25

“Steel City: 1980-2004” is a new exhibit at the El Pueblo History Museum covering the historic steel strike in Pueblo, Colorado. From the Labor Exchange, a podcast put out by the Colorado AFL-CIO, host Robert Lindgren talks to History Colorado’s Zach Werkowitch about the exhibit, which chronicles a defining period in Pueblo’s history as steelworkers and their families fought for labor rights and held their community together during often desperate times. On this week’s Labor History in Two: A

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31:39

It’s not working on the railroad

Labor History Today ·

2022/09/18

Labor historian Erik Loomis (A History of America in Ten Strikes) talks with The Rick Smith Show about how the issues that brought rail workers to the brink of a major strike this week trace back to a long history of abuse by railroad bosses, and a tradition of militance by the men and women who work on the nation’s railroads. Plus, historical perspective on the tentative rail agreement from The American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson. On this week’s Labor History in Two: the 1934 textile

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19:44

A miasma of metals

Labor History Today ·

2022/09/11

On November 1, 1948, smog produced by the southwestern Pennsylvanian steel industry poisoned the air in the Monongahela Valley town of Donora, killing more than 22 people and sickening thousands more. On today’s show, Louise Milone a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Georgia Department of History explores the response of the US Steel Corporation, employees, and Donora residents; and she explains how the United Steelworkers of America pushed for an investigation and improved environmental and

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28:09

NC Labor History Revealed!

Labor History Today ·

2022/09/04

North Carolina’s low union density today belies its rich history of worker organizing since the birth of the American labor movement in the 1800s, but this new podcast by North Carolina’s labor union federation aims to bring that history to light. Also on today’s show, from Labor History in 2:00: Reconstruction Crumbles In Mississippi, and The Peekskill Riots. Got a questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us

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15:50

Mother Jones and Fannie Sellins

Labor History Today ·

2022/08/28

A month before the August 1919 steel strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania, Mother Jones was arrested for addressing a large crowd on Eighth Avenue. And on August 26, 1919, Mine Workers organizer Fannie Sellins and miner Joseph Starzeleski were murdered by coal company guards on a picket line in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. You’ll hear their stories today from Charlie's Monday Marker, hosted by Dr. Charles McCollester and produced by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Charlie’s Monday Marker delves into

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47:18

Scabby The Rat; Smoking at Work; Which Side Are You...

Labor History Today ·

2022/08/21

Today’s episode originally ran on August 4, 2019. Labor lawyer Matt Fusco on Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat, which faced extermination at the hands of the Trump labor board. Gregory Wood, author of “Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace,” and a special LHT remix of the labor classic “Which Side Are You On?” Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at

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19:14

IWW’s Little Red Songbook (Encore)

Labor History Today ·

2022/08/14

Today's episode originally ran on August 12, 2018. This week's labor history: Yale Strom remembers WEVD, the Chicago radio station named for labor leader Eugene Victor Debs; Dan Duncan celebrates the founding of the AFL-CIO’s Maritime Trades Department; Saul Schniderman marks the anniversary of the publication of the IWW’s "Little Red Song Book," which is where all our music this week comes from; and Ben Blake’s labor history Object of the Week is a collection of posters, including one from the

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