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Caption: Host Martha Burk
It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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On this episode of the Apple Seed we explore tales of different types of labor.

Bought by WVPE, RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, Morehead State Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Do you have a residence in the southern states? If so, you might get the oomph about the hurricane situations that may occur once or twice in a yea...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 03:41
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Senor Jorge has lived a multicultural life. Hear how he came to be a Spanish teacher in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:20
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Mortified celebrates Labor Day Weekend with a tribute to teenagers who bravely enter the labor force... regardless of how totally unqualified they ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:05
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Rediscovering the trades. How tiny houses helped reinvigorate high school students to learn carpentry, plumbing and design. Dave and Doug talk with...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
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As an adult, Eileen was diagnosed with a learning disability. At StoryCorps, she remembers how she overcame the challenges she faced at work.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Listen to these tunes to have a better time at work...based off a recent article in The Telegraph UK.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A warm, personal story about the lives and challenges of energy workers "behind the light switch."

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 16:49
Caption: Greg Vaughan
Billboards, business logos, street signs, window lettering; If you drive down any Main Street you’re surrounded by signs. But how did they get ther...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:31
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WTIP's Ann Possis & Dick Swanson chatted with Bill Hansen, owner of Sawbill Outfitters in Tofte with his wife Cindy, about their unique work credit...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 22:41
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What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
Caption: Brian signing his work, Credit: Jakob Lewis
Brian Weir is following his passion as a woodworker. He might still be working at a job he hated if it wasn't for his wife. This piece was produced...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Dean Smith, who spent 40 years as a stunt double for Hollywood Westerns, talks with his wife, Debby, and son, Finis.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shift Change: Worker Owned Cooperatives
Melissa and Mark, who produced Shift Change, explain worker cooperatives and how they offer an alternative to the often crass, uncaring, and dehuma...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:26
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Twice a year, WWOZ does a gut check with you. We ask you to judge us on whether we are doing good, non-commercial radio. It's your call. Your st...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:51:56
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In his essay, "Winter Projects," Aaron Brown lightheartedly looks back at his past tasks for winter. He also discusses the preparations, obstacles,...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
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Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
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A man practices the ancient art of timekeeping.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRVO Public Media, WMPG, and CKMO


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 4
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A look into the world of ice cream truck drivers in southern Maine.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
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Jim Leo has been driving in circles for eighteen years but he?s not dizzy yet. Producer Dylan Merriam takes us out on the ice with an experienced Z...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Interviews with Casual Carpool Riders

  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 10:01
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A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

  • Added: May 24, 2004
  • Length: 09:01
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Office Artist Larissa Brown finds beauty in ordinary office supplies.

Bought by KUOW, WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: May 16, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3