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Dr. Charlie McCollester with the Battle of Homestead Foundation (battleofhomesteadfoundation.org) and Rosemary Trump of the Pennsylvania Labor Hist...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Darryl Moch, Executive Director for The Labor Heritage Foundation, Later Tom Hoffman, Western Pennsylvania Director for Clean Water Action and Rach...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Dr. Charlie McCollester with the Battle of Homestead Foundation (battleofhomesteadfoundation.org) and Rosemary Trump of the Pennsylvania Labor Hist...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Frank Empsak, Executive Director of Workers Independent News, we will talk about Wisconsin and Gov. Walker telephone call.
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Dan Wilson of Blue Goat Technologies, we will be talking about union information technology and Labor Tracks, which is a customizable solution that...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Gerard Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association Treasurer (PSEA.org)
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Gary Allen, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinist, assigned to the Western Territory discusses a variety of labor to...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:02
Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Interview with Transport Workers Union President, plus weekly Labor History/Current Events segment.
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:02
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps provided millions of young men with forestry work as the United States struggled to pull itself ...
Bought by KREV-LP and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 08:04
- Purchases: 2
Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:53
In the second installment of The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, former CCC enrollees and construction foreman recall their experiences ...
Bought by KREV-LP and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Oct 25, 2010
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 2
A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.
- Added: Oct 13, 2010
- Length: 02:00
A historical documentary that uncovers a long-lost story full of intrigue, mystery and wonder in far Northeastern Minnesota. Crooked businessmen, a...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 26:41
- Purchases: 2
Until September 11, 2001, The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest workplace disaster in the history of New York City. Davi...
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
In this first installment of "The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps," WTIP North Shore Community Radio explores the beginnings of the CCC.
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 1
Technology and a lack of demand changed blacksmithing into a specialized trade.
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 03:05
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
We'll also travel back in time and hear the story of a song. John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of ...
Bought by mnartists.org
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
When you think of the first of May, consider how many hours you typically work in a day. That would be 8. But what seems so commonplace as to hard...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 02:00
An oral history account of the successful workers' sit-in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in December of 2008, the first Ameri...
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 21:57
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 30:13
- Purchases: 2
Of the many dramatic events in the long struggle to win decent conditions for America's farm workers, none have been more dramatic -- or influentia...
- Added: Aug 07, 2009
- Length: 03:11
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
