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Ghost Parks and Forgotten Graves: Labor’s Hidden Landmarks
Episode 395
On this week’s Labor History Today, host Chris Garlock explores how workers’ struggles leave lasting marks—not just on history, but on the physical l…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Striking at Kings
Episode 394
On this week’s Labor History Today: Labor History in 2:00 on the Sons of Vulcan’s 1865 strike, a Labor Jawn conversation with songwriter Mindy Murray…
7 months ago
The Greensboro Sit-Ins and the Power of Direct Action
Episode 348
This week on Labor History Today: The 66th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins — a turning point that helped ignite the modern Civil Rights Movemen…
7 months, 1 week ago
A Banjo, a Brick, and a Bible
Episode 347
This week on Labor History Today, we remember Pete Seeger and how his songs helped build movements—from union halls to civil rights and environmenta…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Poet of the Lawrence Strike
Episode 346
This episode of Labor History Today features historian Marcella Bencivenni on Arturo Giovannitti—Italian immigrant, poet, socialist, and labor organi…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Homestead Strike in Film and Song
Episode 345
This week on Labor History Today, we explore how the 1892 Homestead Strike continues to live on—not just in books and archives, but in film, music, a…
8 months ago
Made by Labour
Episode 344
This week on Labor History Today, Simon Sapper talks with historian Martin Wright, co-author of Made by Labour: A Material and Visual History of Brit…
8 months, 1 week ago
When Workers Tell Their Own Stories
Episode 343
This week on Labor History Today, we move from repression to resistance—and from history to possibility.
We begin with Labor History in Two and the 1…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Cecil Roberts: “ You must continue to fight”(Encore)
Episode 342
On this week’s Labor History Today: From Camp Solidarity in Matewan, West Virginia—the heart of the legendary Mine Wars—UMWA President Cecil Roberts …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Who’s Got the Power? Labor’s Post-Pandemic Upsurge
Episode 341
In this episode of Labor History Today, labor organizer and researcher Eric Dirnbach talks with Dave Kamper, author of Who’s Got the Power: Hope for …
8 months, 4 weeks ago