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American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....
- Added: May 01, 2020
- Length: 57:48
- Purchases: 2
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
Author Elizabeth Partridge provides an authoritative biographical essay for a new book on the work of the twentieth century’s most important photog...
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 17:29
Are most airline stewards gay? How did their legal battles with airlines advance gay rights and gender workplace equity? History professor Phil Tie...
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 28:54
Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:53
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 07:46
Of the many dramatic events in the long struggle to win decent conditions for America's farm workers, none have been more dramatic -- or influentia...
- Added: Aug 07, 2009
- Length: 03:11
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Two interviews for the curious among us: Why we can thank the anarchist movement for an 8 hour work week , then a discussion of new insights into t...
- Added: Jul 16, 2008
- Length: 29:36
A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.
Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played a major role in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WDBM, and WEZU
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
Few leaders have left a greater legacy than labor leader Jack Hall, a major figure in the transformation of feudalistic Hawaii into a democratic st...
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 04:43
A commentary noting that author John Steinbeck was one of the best friends American workers ever had.
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:18
This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 11, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
This commentary celebrates the 70th anniversary of the fledgling auto workers union's spectacular victory over mighty General Motors.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Dec 08, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
A commentary marking the anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, one of the most enduring and influential of American symbols.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 05, 2006
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
Ernesto Galarza, now largely forgotten, played a key role in the rise of the farm labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
