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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....

Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more

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

Finntown

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn

In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...

Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer

How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

How We Got Here, Part 2: The Road To Shareholder Capitalism

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The second section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and susceptible to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 2 ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

How We Got Here, Part 1: The Great Risk Shift

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The first section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and susceptible to a crisis like the current pandemic. Part 1...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis

Episode 132: Herrin Massacre

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...

On That Roof

From: Andrew Cavette
Series: Fremont Sounds Like...

If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.

Vegas Vic: Salt Lake City Native

From: KUER
Series: More To Say

When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more

Harbor Views: Portraits of a Working Waterfront

From: Sophie Kazis

Caption: Clean Up Man at Bergie’s Seafood from the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s exhibition, “Working Waterfront: Photographic Portraits”. 2009. New Bedford. Photo by Phil Mello.

Phil Mello has been photographing New Bedford’s working waterfront for over 40 years. He started as an amateur, documenting the inner world of the ...

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

The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Occupy: 5 Years Later

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Now We Have Fire: A Tale of Two Bladesmiths

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries

Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.

Texas Traditions: A Boot Worth the Wait

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries

Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.

FALL POEMS: "To Autumn" by John Keats

From: The Poetry Foundation

This classic poem, by Romantic poet John Keats, celebrates the beauty of the season.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

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

"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