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Red Jerseys in Detroit (Encore)
Episode 415
On this week’s Labor History Today: The FIFA World Cup is once again captivating fans around the globe as the 2026 tournament heads into the semifina…
2 months, 1 week ago
The People Make History
Episode 414
On this week's Labor History Today: As the nation reflects on Independence Day, we turn from the "Great Men" of history to the voices of the people. …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Martyr of Kensington: Carl Mackley and the Aberle Strike
Episode 413
This week on Labor History Today: Silk stockings were all the rage in the 1920s, but the workers who made them paid the price. When the H.C. Aberle H…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Made by Labour (Encore)
Episode 412
This week on Labor History Today (originally broadcast 1/11/2026), Simon Sapper talks with historian Martin Wright, co-author of Made by Labour: A Ma…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Donora Death Fog (Encore)
Episode 411
On this week’s Labor History Today (Originally released October 12, 2025): A visit to the Donora Smog Museum, where a six-day inversion in 1948 trapp…
3 months, 1 week ago
Slater the Traitor, Father of American Manufacturing
Episode 410
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Labor History Today visits Old Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, widely considered the b…
3 months, 1 week ago
The stories labor history remembers—and forgets
Episode 409
On Labor History Today: What happens if the labor laws that have governed workplace organizing since the 1930s simply disappear? Historian Leigh Camp…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
They’ll Never Keep Us Down
Episode 408
This week on Labor History Today: Hazel Dickens remembered. The Mine Wars Forum talks with Hazel’s nephew Buddy Dickens about the legendary labor sin…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Whose History Gets Told?
Episode 407
On this week’s edition of Labor History Today: the People’s 250 campaign asks whose stories belong in America’s history, from the 1968 Memphis sanita…
4 months ago
What Haymarket’s Three Monuments Reveal
Episode 406
On Labor History Today: What do Chicago’s three Haymarket monuments reveal about labor history, public memory, and who gets to shape the story of the…
4 months, 1 week ago