2020-03
2020-03
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
COVID-19: An injury to one is the concern of all
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
Al Neal’s “Silent streets: Life halts, but not for all workers,” and Joe McCartin on “Class and the Challenge of COVID-19.” Plus Saul Schniderman and John O’Connor remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
The Great Postal Strike, Watergate and “Casey Jones, the Union Scab”
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Longtime labor lawyer Jules Bernstein on the 1970 postal strike, AFL-CIO president George Meany on the Watergate scandal, and Pete Seeger on “Casey Jones, the Union Scab.”
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Neutron Jack, Joker and Parasite
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Labor historian Joe McCartin on “Neutron Jack” Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, who died last week; Sherry Linkon on class conflict in two recent award-winning movies, Joker and Parasite. Plus music from SongRise, a DC-based women's social justice a cappella group.
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Professor Robyn Muncy, co-curator of “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote,” on the role organized labor played in the lengthy and difficult struggle for women’s rights. Plus Saul Schniderman on the origins of Women’s History Month and “Rise Up: Songs of the Women's Movement," the PBS show celebrating that history.