2019-12
2019-12
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Working-Class Christmas
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
On today’s special holiday show, professor Kathy Newman argues that it was the working class that invented Christmas and many of the traditions that are associated with the holiday season. A year ago, nearly a million government workers were locked out or working without pay; we talk to Gregory Guthrie, president of National Federation of Federal Employees Local 1627, about last year’s historic government shutdown. And Saul Schneiderman – with some help from Woody Guthrie – remembers the 1913 Massacre.
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Hidden in the Fields
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez on Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship, from the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. Plus Lane Windham on the Willmar 8, who organized the first strike against a bank in U.S. history.
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Collective actions
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Working-class heroes organize Pecket Well College in England, and Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farms Cooperative in the Mississippi Delta. Plus this week’s labor history highlights!
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Making the Woman Worker
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Eileen Boris on “Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards” from the Working History podcast. Plus this week’s labor history highlights!