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From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...
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- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 59:02
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 59:01
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Our guest is economic historian Aaron Benanav, and our show is about automation and the future of work where the road to Utopia (yellow brick and o...
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- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:01
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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
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...
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- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 1
In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 58:26
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 59:15
- Purchases: 2
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Nemesio, Cindy, Garry, and Cono...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 28:06
A.J. Muste was referred to throughout the world as the “American Gandhi,” and he’s probably best known, if at all, for his leadership of the peace ...
- Added: Sep 05, 2018
- Length: 58:10
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
The “Red Scare,” often called McCarthyism, went much deeper than what was directed by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and had, even as ...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2018
- Length: 58:22
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Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 58:00
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3.
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist ...
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- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 28:13
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HOUR ONE: "Locked Up" - Most of us will never know what really happens behind bars. Prisons are generally off limits to the public and press. This ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 22:05
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event h...
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 27:52
Interview by Ken Winkes: John examines the state of our current health care system.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 28:07
Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 59:13
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event h...
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 27:50
Interview: Members of the Whatcom-Skagit IWW and Linda Allen talk about the legendary organizer and Labor song writer Joe Hill, sing his songs, an...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:49
“Learn Yourself” and Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
Interview: Mike starts a special segment of We Do The Work c...
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- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 28:01
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