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They Were Already Home
Episode 405
On this week’s Labor History Today: a powerful look at past and present struggles for worker rights and justice. We revisit the Haymarket Affair and …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Can Resistance Revive Labor?
Episode 404
On this week’s Labor History Today: Can resistance to Trumpism help rebuild worker power?
Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!, joins labor historian Jo…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
From Haymarket to May Day 2026
Episode 403
This week’s Labor History Today features Labor Express Radio in Chicago, previewing May Day 2026. From the 1886 fight for the eight-hour day to today…
5 months ago
The Last Words of Joe Hill Are Still Echoing
Episode 402
On this week’s Labor History Today, producer producer Harold Phillips talks with Victoria McCallum and Lantz Simpson, co-writers of The Last Words of…
5 months, 1 week ago
Breaking Chains from Memphis to Baseball
Episode 401
On this week’s Labor History Today: In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood with striking sanitation workers in Memphis—members of AFSCME Local 1…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
When Workers Made Their Own Magic
Episode 400
On this week’s Labor History Today: As Women’s History Month draws to a close, we mark the founding of the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974, wh…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Women Who Led the Fight
Episode 399
This week on Labor History Today, we explore moments when workers didn’t just demand change—they forced it.
Detroit, 1937: sit-down strikers face a v…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Bread and Roses Strike and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Episode 398
This week on Labor History Today: From the fiery tragedy that shocked the nation—the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire—to the powerful solidarity…
6 months ago
Women Workers Carry Forward the Fight for Justice
Episode 397
On this week’s Labor History Today, we continue our look at the legacy of A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first m…
6 months, 1 week ago
“Manhood Rights”: The Brotherhood at 100
Episode 396
On this week’s Labor History Today, historian Eric Arnesen marks the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, tracing how A. Philip Ran…
6 months, 2 weeks ago