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  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Irene Hall
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist Irene Hull.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anna Louise Strong
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Conor Casey & Crystal Rogers
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Crystal and Conor report on the ‘Women in Labor History’ project. Song: Rebel Girl: written by Joe Hill, arranged and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ellie Belew and Megan Cornish
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

Bought by WMPG and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
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From the Ukrainian Pale to Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Radicalized by d...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:12
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
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Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Studs Terkel
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
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
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-There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Caption: Building 92, Credit: Shannon Geis
Ever wondered what goes on behind the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard? We found out!

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 08:52
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
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Glow. Green. Light. Radium. Even the words are beautiful.

Bought by Remix Radio and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 30:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4