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Battle of the Eureka Stockade
Episode 287
On this week’s Labor History Today: Battle of the Eureka Stockade. Australia’s history closely tracks American history; the subjugation of indigenous…
1 year, 8 months ago
At Sword’s Point
Episode 286
American labor unions have seen an incredible resurgence in recent years, which, suggests public historian Tom Goldscheider, “begs the question: why …
1 year, 8 months ago
Christmas in Mansfield
Episode 285
Joe Jencks is a 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter, and a celebrated vocalist based in Chicago. Merging c…
1 year, 8 months ago
The 1997 UPS Strike
Episode 284
“This fight isn't just for the teamsters. This is for all American workers.”
This weekend, Teamsters struck Amazon in New York City, Atlanta, Skokie,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Touring the American Labor Museum
Episode 283
On this week's Labor History Today: Touring the American Labor Museum
The American Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey, is also known as The Botto Ho…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ybor City, Crucible of the Latina South
Episode 282
On this week's Labor History Today: Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutio…
1 year, 9 months ago
A tale of two Detroit murals
Episode 281
Dr. Jay Cephas considers two Depression-era murals in Detroit and their contrasting messaging about workers, labor, and power. Diego Rivera’s famed D…
1 year, 9 months ago
The lost labor artist
Episode 280
Five stunning paintings depicting labor organizing, pickets and the violence directed at workers in the turbulent 1930s were almost lost to history. …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Bootleg Coal Rebellion
Episode 279
Labor historian Mitch Troutman’s 2022 book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942 is a detailed accou…
1 year, 10 months ago
Together We Can Move Mountains
Episode 278
Bev Grant is a cultural worker from Brooklyn, NY; she’s a social justice feminist, a choral director, an occasional bandleader, a dance artist and a …
1 year, 10 months ago