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The Cost of For-Profit College (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Are for-profit colleges and universities worth the money? Lilia Fuquen reports that according to a new study, for-profit colleges are not only cost...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jun 23, 2017
Length: 03:37
Purchases: 2

Edward Alden, author of "Failure to Adjust"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Host Bob Kustra interviews Alden about his book about how America got left behind in the global economy.

Added: Jun 18, 2017
Length: 30:30

The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX

Added: May 04, 2017
Length: 03:19
Purchases: 3

StoryCorps: Michael Yandell and Amy Yandell

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Michael Yandell tells his wife, Amy, about being exposed to sarin gas while serving in the U.S. Army as a bomb disposal technician in Iraq.

Bought by WVBI-LP

Added: May 01, 2017
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 1

Women in the Workplace

From: Brooklyn College Radio

Three women detail their experiences in the paid labor force and how invaluable women are as workers and providers.

Added: Apr 11, 2017
Length: 08:41

Emotion Revolution in the Workplace - Andrew Faas and Yale Center for EI

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Caption: Be part of the Emotion Revolutiion

Andrew Faas has a new book and a new alliance. The book is "From Bully to Bull's-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire" and the allia...

Added: Feb 26, 2017
Length: 49:16

Viking Economics

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX

Added: Nov 29, 2016
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 2

Michael McCarthy, author of "Ashes Under Water"

From: Janelle Brown

Host Bob Kustra interviews Michael McCarthy, author of "Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck that Shook America."

Added: Sep 30, 2016
Length: 30:05

StoryCorps: William Chambers and Ceceley Chambers

From: StoryCorps

Caption: William Chambers and Ceceley Chambers

William’s mother is a chaplain providing spiritual support to seniors and hospice patients. At StoryCorps they discuss how her work affects them both.

Added: Sep 08, 2016
Length: 03:23

The Leftovers In A Coal Miner's Lunchbox (Gravy Ep. 44)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: Coal miner Ronnie Johnson, with his lunchbox.

For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Added: Aug 25, 2016
Length: 31:48
Purchases: 4

Cedar Grove

From: Catherine Moore

Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May

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

StoryCorps: Vito de la Cruz and Maria Sefchick-Del Paso

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Civil rights lawyer Vito de la Cruz grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers. He describes his childhood and the loving aunt who raised him.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm

Added: Apr 26, 2016
Length: 02:58
Purchases: 5

McAteer – Mines No Safer After Upper Big Branch

From: WMMT

5-05-15 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature April 4th was the 6th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch disaster, when 29 coal miners were kil...

Added: Apr 08, 2016
Length: 15:54

Telework (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Working from home might sound like an ideal arrangement, but teleworking also affects those still at the office, too. A researcher says there are s...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Mar 25, 2016
Length: 03:41
Purchases: 3

Cloak and Dagger in the Workplace (hour)

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

-How to control malicious colleagues at work. And: Teleworking can have negative effects on people who have to stay at the office. Plus: How to con...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU and more

Added: Mar 25, 2016
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 6

Cloak and Dagger in the Workplace (half)

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

-Telecommuting is growing, but research shows that having too many people work off-site can have negative effects on the folks who do come into the...

Bought by WJCT, KFAI Minneapolis, WYAP, WNMU-FM, KVSC and more

Added: Mar 25, 2016
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 8

SoundsLA - Fire Engine Sirens

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

Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...

Added: Mar 04, 2016
Length: 01:01

We Are the Bomb: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin Talk Activism and Politics

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Boots RIley, Credit: http://nycsocialist.org/

Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin

Bought by WRIR

Added: Feb 06, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography

In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR

Added: Feb 05, 2016
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Integration Nation

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue. In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 03, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Inventing Fish

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Caption: Frozen tuna in the hold of a fishing ship. , Credit: Alex Hofford | Greenpeace | MarinePhotobank.org

World fisheries are in crisis, with many species pushed to the edge of extinction. The current system is a recipe for disaster: demand is up; exter...

Added: Jan 11, 2016
Length: 05:25

Episode 7: Bishop Castle

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...

Added: Dec 30, 2015
Length: 59:08

Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...

Added: Dec 30, 2015
Length: 58:45

Shaping the Future of Work

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...

Bought by KCBX