PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
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
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...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
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
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 ...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jul 30, 2018
- Length: 58:22
- Purchases: 1
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
Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 03:13
Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 05:10
Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:56
Labor leader Gene Debs died 85 years ago this month, but remains an important inspiration for those struggling against powerful anti-labor forces.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 05:27
The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
An interview with Hal Donahue, a military expert and writer for the Huffington Post.
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge Gerard Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association Treasurer (PSEA.org) and later Doug Cunningham of Workers Indepen...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Buy American with Barbara Toncheff and her guest Michelle Nash-Hoff of savingusmanufacturing.com, later Labor History with Charlie McCollester
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 01:34
Prometheus Radio Project joins The Union Edge in Pittsburgh to celebrate Rep. Mike Doyle’s championship of the Local Community Radio Act. This law ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge, Bob Martinez, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinists, (GoIAM.org), Boeing Vs. Airbus, The S...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 40:51
Brian Frayer and Pete Kovac both DoD Law Enforcement officers
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge, Michael J Wilson of Americans for Democratic Action, (ADAction.org) and his guests Andy Gussert Citizens Trade Campaign (c...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 49:52
- Purchases: 1
Today on The Union Edge, Jack Wade & Doug Cunningham, then our new program, "What Vets Need to Know”. Later, Jack Shea, Allegheny County CLC Presid...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:02
Today on The Union Edge, Jim Little, International President of the Transport Workers Union,(TWU.org) then labor history with Charlie McCollester a...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:02
Today on The Union Edge, Maggie Priebe of Working America (workingamerica.org) and later Tim Burga President of the Ohio AFL-CIO (ohaflcio.org), Ti...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 02:09
Today on The Union Edge, National Workrights Institute (workrights.us) president Lew Maltby will join ADA (ADACtion.org) national director Michael ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on The Union Edge we're featuring the building trades. Rich Stanizzo, President of Pittsburgh Building and Construction Trade Council; Willia...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1