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The Working Tapes: Taxi Driver
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
The Working Tapes: Phone Operator
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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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
The Working Tapes: Jockey
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Car Hiker
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event ho...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 27:53
Episode 76: American Job Guarantee
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
Seattle Labor Chorus, Janet Stecher, Director/Conductor, and Bob Barnes, Founding Member
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Seattle Labor Chorus
Interview: Janet and Bob talk about how the Seattle Labor Chorus started, their music, and the way to join as well as playing three of the choir’s...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:48
RDD: Baldemar and the FLOC (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, The RDD meets the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created by Baldemar Velásquez to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Cameron Duncan, Labor Educator, Past Regional Director for the Americans of Public Services International, and AFSCME Researcher, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: International Unions
Dr. Duncan explains international labor organizations.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:12
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Everett Massacre, Holding the Fort-Sung by IWW
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
Dr. John Geyman, Family physician, Author, Professor, and Blogger
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Dr. John Geyman
Interview by Ken Winkes: John examines the state of our current health care system.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:07
The Life of Whalers in the 19th Century
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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adio Curious discusses the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachus...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Michael McCarthy, author of "Ashes Under Water"
From: Janelle Brown
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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
Occupy: 5 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Dumovich’s and Gary Kanter’s Labor Day Program
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter & Mike Dumovich
Mike and Gary host this year’s Labor Day program by playing music from artists that are important to them and the labor movement.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 27:36
  • Purchases: 1
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Eva Urcia
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event o...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
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
Now We Have Fire: A Tale of Two Bladesmiths
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 09:24
Texas Traditions: A Boot Worth the Wait
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Caption: Men at "antipass" protest, near Johannesburg, 1950, Credit: Margaret Bourke-White/Time-Life/Getty Images
As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
The Madam Next Door (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey, Archivist
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: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:19

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