2021-05
2021-05
Sunday May 23, 2021
Shootout in Matewan; General strike in KC
Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
On May 19, 1920, a deadly shootout took place in Matewan, West Virginia between striking union miners and coal company agents; Record West Virginia launched their show last year with a retelling of this famous battle. And just two years earlier, a general strike took place in Kansas City, sparked by solidarity between black and white women workers. The Heartland Labor Forum’s Judy Ancel brings us the story of this important but little-known moment in labor history.On today’s Labor History in 2: The year was 1934. That was the day the Lucas County Sheriff ordered an attack on thousands of Electric Auto-Lite strikers and Unemployed League supporters, touching off the six-day Battle of Toledo.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. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 100 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @ILLaborHistory @RickSmithShow @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @RecordWV @Heartland_Labor Edited/produced by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Sunday May 16, 2021
Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview
Sunday May 16, 2021
Sunday May 16, 2021
This year marks the 95th anniversary of the 1926 textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey, when some 15,000 unskilled wool workers -- mostly immigrants and half of them women -- struck for more than a year for higher wages and better conditions. We talk about the strike and its relevance to today’s struggles with Jacob Zumoff, author of The Red Thread, the first comprehensive study of this historic strike.This Friday, the biennial conference of LAWCHA – The Labor And Working Class History Association – kicks off. It’s being held online, making it available to labor history fans around the world. The theme this year is “Workers on the Front Lines”; LHT’s Patrick Dixon gets a preview from conference co-chair Peter Cole.
On today’s Labor History in 2: The year was 1934. That was the day Minneapolis Teamsters walked off the job.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. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 100 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @ILLaborHistory @RickSmithShow @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @LAWCHA_ORG #LAWCHA2021 @LaborOnline @RutgersUPress @ProfPeterColeEdited/produced by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Monday May 10, 2021
Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
Kathy Newman tries to figure out why this 200-year-old genre is suddenly so popular, and Drunk History’s version of the 1886 Haymarket Riot. On today’s Labor History in 2: The Historic ‘34 West Coast Maritime Strike Begins. Thanks to the Working Class Perspectives blog, Comedy Central’s Drunk History show and The Haymarket Squares.
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. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 100 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @ILLaborHistory @RickSmithShow #LaborHistory @_kathymnewmanEdited/produced by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Sunday May 02, 2021
50 years of “Strike!”
Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
"So many people have been unwilling to say the word strike, but say it with me: Strike, strike, strike!" AFA president Sara Nelson’s inspirational keynote at the April 6 symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jeremy Brecher’s classic labor history book “Strike!” On today’s Labor History in 2: Our Thing is DRUM!
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. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 100 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @ILLaborHistory @RickSmithShow #LaborHistory @PMPressOrg @FlyingWithSara @labornotes @LN4SEdited/produced by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon; social media guru: Harold Phillips