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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...
- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 28:01
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: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 28:01
We explore how Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market.
And:Now is the ideal time for work...
Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WLPR , WCMU Michigan and more
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 13
Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. Historian Steven Reich suggests ways to change that.
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, KMUN and more
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 11
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
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
this week on the show: Work — and no play? -
As today's fast-paced world spins faster and faster, the pressure is taking a toll on people's me...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 30:00
When Eve Rodsky found herself sobbing on the side of the road over a text about blueberries, she knew something had to change. Hence began her seve...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
My mom always used to tell me, 'Only the strong survive.' To this day, those words live in me.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 17, 2019
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
Kristin Sollars and Marci Ebberts talk about their experiences as critical-care nurses in Kansas City, MO.
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 1
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
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
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
Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
The personal journal is often not meant for the eyes of anyone but the writer. When a stranger’s journal is read, the reader often becomes a voyeur...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Although Kavanaugh’s Been Installed on Supreme Court, the Fight is Far Fr...
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)
The Grupo de Mujeres, or Womens' Group, works tirelessly for the dignity of their families and themselves at the Workers Defense Project. Here are ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)
As a domestic worker, Gloria felt helpless and isolated until she was rescued by Domesticas Unidas in San Antonio. We sit down with Irasema Cavazos...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 1
Bob Kustra interviews Stephanie Coontz about the revised edition of her book "The Way We Never Were"
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: What's changed in the textile industry five years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh ? --- Women in Poland take to...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
In the late 1960s, Karen Offutt was a patriotic teenager who got chills whenever she heard the “Star-Spangled Banner.” At 18, she dropped out of nu...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
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
In our show today with Sara Farris we’ll ask, what’s behind the right-wing demand for women’s rights in the context of immigration (hint, it’s the ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Or in oth...
Bought by XRAY.fm and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
