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The Donora Death Fog
Episode 330
On this week’s Labor History Today: A visit to the Donora Smog Museum, where a six-day inversion in 1948 trapped toxic fumes over a Pennsylvania mill…
11 months, 1 week ago
Remembering Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (Encore)
Episode 329
On this week's Labor History Today: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, first AFL woman organizer; novelist Jack London’s classic definition of a scab; Southern …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Red Bandanas and Solidarity
Episode 328
This week on Labor History Today: From the 2025 Camp Solidarity, West Virginia Mine Wars Museum co-founder Wilma Steele unpacks the red bandana—traci…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cecil Roberts: “ You must continue to fight”
Episode 327
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 …
1 year ago
Unmasking Anti-union Antisemitism
Episode 326
This week on Labor History Today, labor historian Joseph McCartin joins Chris Garlock to unpack his recent congressional testimony on unions, antisem…
1 year ago
Trouble! at Coal Creek
Episode 325
On this week’s Labor History Today: Activist and artist Austin Sauerbrei talks about his debut graphic novel Trouble! at Coal Creek, which brings to …
1 year ago
Patriotism, Paranoia, and Labor on Trial
Episode 324
On this week’s Labor History Today: Historian Dr. Jeffrey Johnson tells the story of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing and the infamous…
1 year ago
Resisting Trump’s Rewrite: Black Slave Labor’s Secret Strategies
Episode 323
This week on Labor History Today: the Solidarity Forever podcast explores how enslaved Black laborers resisted and strategized before the Civil War. …
1 year ago
How We Get Free: Worker Solidarity in Racine
Episode 322
On this week’s Labor History Today, scholar and creator Shana L. Redmond sits down with Naomi R Williams, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Em…
1 year, 1 month ago
Hard Hats, Grapes, and Garbage
Episode 321
This week on Labor History Today: From Nixon’s “hard hat” protest to reform battles inside the Steelworkers, from Philly’s once-every-40-years sanita…
1 year, 1 month ago