2020-07
2020-07
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Strike!
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
As Black Lives Matter protests continue to spread across the country this summer, we delve into the Labor History Today archives for stories of mass uprisings from our past. In this show, originally released on July 15, 2018, labor historian Joe McCartin discusses the 1934 San Francisco Longshoremen's strike -- which spread into a four-day general strike -- and the Great Steel Strike of 1959. Then, Donna Haverty-Stacke tells us about the 1934 Minneapolis truckers strike. And union convention badges are the Labor History Object of the Week, as Ben Blake takes another deep dive into the George Meany Labor Archives. Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work”: the Housewives League of Detroit
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Wayne State history PhD candidate, archivist, and former Reuther Library staff member Allie Penn talks with Tales from the Reuther Library podcast host Dan Golodner about the Housewives League of Detroit. Plus, Labor History in 2 tells the story of Oscar Neebe, one of eight men convicted of inciting violence at a workers rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago in 1886. And, from our own archives, the former union building right in downtown DC that you’ve probably passed many times without realizing the key role it played in American labor history. Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
2020 Great Labor Arts Exchange contest winners!
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
This year’s contest winners include People’s Music Networks’ Executive Director Ben Grosscup and Paul McKenna for the Julie McCall Best Parody; Songwriter Inez West from the NYC Labor Chorus for the Bread and Roses Best Labor/Social Justice Poem; Steve Jones, Music Director of the DC Labor Chorus for the Joe Glazer Best Union Song; NYC artist and activist Dilson Hernandez, for the John Fromer String Buster Ballad; and first timer and youngest winner of the contest ever, JustLove, for the Talkin’ Union Spoken Word. “These last two young winners are our hope that the labor and social justice movement is once again on the rise!” Also this week, Joe Glazer’s recording of "Solidarity Forever" from the Songs of Work and Freedom album, and the Cool Things from the Meany Archives gang brings us the July 4th, 1964, issue of the AFL CIO news, which featured the signing of the Civil Rights Act, and Ben and Allen tie that into the ongoing protests for social justice that we see in the streets today. Produced by Chris Garlock. Alan Wierdak produced the Meany Archives segment. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. Links:2020 Great Labor Arts Exchange videosLabor Heritage FoundationGeorge Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive