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Labor’s Philadelphia Story
Episode 340
This week on Labor History Today, we head to Philadelphia with an excerpt from the Labor Jawn podcast. Hosts Sam and Gabe talk with labor historian D…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Country Song That Powered a General Strike
Episode 339
This week on Labor History Today, we revisit the 1946 Oakland General Strike through the eyes of labor educator and activist Stan Weir — and uncover …
9 months, 1 week ago
Talking History with Sara Nelson
Episode 338
This week on Labor History Today, we’re marking the 50th anniversary of the Walter P. Reuther Library building at Wayne State University with a speci…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
No Contract, No Coffee
Episode 337
On this week’s Labor History Today: We turn up the “today” in Labor History Today with a special edition focused on the historic, open-ended strike n…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Where’s our Forty Acres And A Mule?
Episode 336
Historian and former UAW organizer Rudi Batzell joins America’s Workforce Union Podcast to explain how the failure of land reform after slavery — and…
10 months ago
“We’re in a real fight”
Episode 335
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Organising for a Change digs into the reform vote and the real fight ahead for labor. In labor history, on this…
10 months, 1 week ago
“I Am of It”: Bernie Sanders on Eugene V. Debs
Episode 334
On this week’s Labor History Today: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders accepts the 60th annual Eugene V. Debs Award from the Eugene V. Debs Foundation in Te…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Untold Story of John Henry
Episode 333
On this week’s Labor History Today: Our friends at America’s Workforce mark Halloween with a chillingly real tale — the untold story of John Henry an…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Voices of Guinness (Encore)
Episode 332
On Labor History Today: In 2005 the Guinness Brewery at Park Royal, West London closed after seven decades of production. Tim Strangleman spent the l…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Justice Denied: Ben Shahn and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (Encore)
Episode 331
On this week’s Labor History Today: Justice Denied: David Gariff on “Ben Shahn and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti.” Saul Schniderman remembers musici…
11 months ago