2020-02
2020-02
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Striking Images: Labor on Screen and in the Streets
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Maybe class-conscious films like 2020 Academy Award winners "American Factory" and "Parasite" are actually the rule and not the exception. So argues Kathy Newman this week. Plus, Saul Schniderman on how sales clerk Leura Collins’ decision to buy some chicken led to the Weingarten Rights.
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
John Sayles on “Matewan,” “Yellow Earth” and more
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Writer, actor, and filmmaker John Sayles talks about his latest novel, “Yellow Earth,” and about his classic labor films Matewan and Eight Men Out. Plus, a reading from “Yellow Earth.” Also this week, Saul Schniderman on the arrest of “Mother” Jones while leading a protest of conditions in West Virginia mines, and Jacob Feinspan remembers the 1926 general strike by New York furriers.
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sisters, rebels and social justice in the Jim Crow South
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
On today’s show, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall discusses her new book, Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of the South in an excerpt from the Working History podcast. Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Iris Rivera’s historic refusal to serve coffee, Jessica Pauszek reads poetry by a striking British miner’s wife and Tom Zaniello remembers Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.