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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
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
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
This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 2
A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 11, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
The CIO's history offers important lessons for those currently trying to revitalize the labor movement .
- Added: Mar 01, 2005
- Length: 03:22
