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821: Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time / 822: Everything Is Exhausting, 8/19/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

What's Wrong With Work?

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: What's Wrong With Work?

It's not easy in America today to find work that matters, that’s meaningful, and that pays enough to live on. Which is the one thing we don’t talk ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more

Playing Friday

From: Black Mountain Radio

Sam Forbes is a writer, photographer, and actor. For many years, a significant part of her creative practice took place inside what she calls a hid...

Working through History

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

We explore how Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. And:Now is the ideal time for work...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WLPR , WCMU Michigan and more

Working through History

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. Historian Steven Reich suggests ways to change that.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, KMUN and more

Reporting on Economic Hardship

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Our Walmart (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing supplier...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more

Our Walmart (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing suppliers...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KRDP, WYAP and more

The Golden Age of Flattery (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more

221: Burnout / 222: Getting Jazzed, 11/18/2017

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Burnout" - Ever get the Sunday Night Blues? This hour, how to take back your weekends and the culture of overwork. HOUR TWO: "Getting ...

A Lifetime of Caregiving: Mom and Uncle Harold

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Mom and Uncle Harodl, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens

Most often family members are the ones that step up and provide care when a parent or loved one needs it. According to the Family Caregiver Allianc...

SoundsLA - Operating a Crane at the Port 150 Feet High

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

Frank Kostrencich has been working the night shift as a crane operator at the Port of Los Angeles for the past 26 years. Using his precision and ex...

The Last Job

From: The Truth

Life in the Age of Leisure

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KALW, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix

Coffee: Trouble Brewing?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRIR, and KVSC

Old Sturbridge Village

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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

99% Invisible #73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

A poet makes a city.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

Seeing Red

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

The Guys share a little-known story about that time Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism"

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis

"Finns In Minnesota: The 1907 Mesabi Range Strike" by Britt Aamodt

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ

Fordlandia, from Dream to Ghost Town

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.

Bought by PRX Remix

Who Won the Egyptian Revolution?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...