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Instaserfs (I of III)
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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In the sharing economy no one can hear you work. This is because companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others only employ “partners” or indepen...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 32:42
  • Purchases: 3
La Guardia and Organized Labor: La Guardia Radio Programs
From: LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
Series: La Guardia Radio Series
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Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia received a great deal of praise from labor leaders for his support of organized labor in the private sector. While he ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:13
Kremlin to Kremlin
From: With Good Reason
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In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:24
The Pillsbury A Mill
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:31
The Madam Next Door (Half Hour Version)
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 1...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Madam Next Door
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly 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 1...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Scraping the Sky: Art Deco Architecture in the Twin Cities
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: The outdoor observation deck on the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 2
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
The Tygart Valley Homestead
From: Traveling 219
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The Tygart Valley Homestead was built in the 1930s as part of a New Deal project to re-locate and re-settle impoverished families to new cooperativ...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:01
"Harriman V Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War" by Larry Haeg
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Larry Haeg joins us to talk about his book "Harriman V Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War" from the University of Minnesota Press. The ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 10:34
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Day Celebration: Rosalinda Guillen, Ex Dir of Community to Community Development
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Rosalinda Guillen, Ex Dir Community to Community
Labor celebrates with an introduction by Ken Winkes. Interview: Rosalinda, who was raised in a local farm worker family and has worked long hours ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
Sustainibility
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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Even though the whole “green” theme fad is becoming obnoxious, we’re happy to say that it certainly seems like the “sustainability” trend is here t...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 22:51
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Dumovich and Gary Kanter, Their Original Songs
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter and Mike Dumovich
Mike Dumovich and Gary Kanter, Their Original Songs Interview/Songs: Mike and Gary, hosts of We Do The Work, play some of their original songs and ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:17
Voices from the Oilfields
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Using oral histories of early East Texas oil workers, recorded in the 1950s, we hear about the chaos and excess that accompanied the discovery of oil.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
The French Sensation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
Stone Mountain
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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This month we sit down with three unique guests to talk about the gravity and gravitas of the world’s largest piece of exposed granite, Stone Mount...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 21:50
The Birth of the Minimum Wage
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with legal historian Risa Goluboff about the legal background to the federal minimum wage, established by the Fair Labor St...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Louisville Public Media, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 4
Slaves for Hire
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian Gregg Kimball tells host Ed Ayers about the phenomenon of “hiring out” enslaved persons prior to the Civil War, and how this introduced s...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 1
Prisoners at War
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Karin Shapiro about the convict leasing arrangements of the 1890s that led to labor disputes with free workers, ...

Bought by WDBM, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Nonviolent Path of Cesar Chavez
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco and Texas ...

Bought by KDNK, KGUA, WWNO, KGLP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 43
Old Sturbridge Village
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
Project #9
From: Joanne DeVault
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This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:58
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightening
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Migrant Mother, Credit: Dorothea Lange
Author Elizabeth Partridge provides an authoritative biographical essay for a new book on the work of the twentieth century’s most important photog...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 17:29
The Winona Works Project: Father Paul Breza
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Bytow (Poland) Mayor Ryszard Sylka, at left, along with Father Paul Breza and Bytow City Council Chairman Leszek Waszkiewicz, visited the Winona Polish Heritage Museum last week. The Bytow leaders traveled to Winona to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fa, Credit: Photo by Sarah Squires of the Winona Post
The Winona Works Project provides insight into Winona’s workforce through the voices of those working in the community today. Through a series of i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 24:57
  • Purchases: 1
Moyers & Company show 228: Fighting for Farmworkers
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Baldemar Velásquez on fighting for the rights of America’s farmworkers. Next on Moyers & Company.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KVMR, KBRP Community Radio, KTRL, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 29

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