This week's labor history: Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. in 1910; 1,200 workers sit down at Midland Steel in 1936; the National Labor Relations Board rules that medical interns can unionize and negotiate wages and hours in 1999; The pro-labor musical revue, “Pins & Needles,” opens on Broadway in 1937 with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members; birth of William Sylvis, founder of the National Labor Union.
Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Leon Fink, Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, edits the journal, "Labor: Studies in Working Class History."
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Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
This week's music:
Dropkick Murphys - Worker's Song
https://youtu.be/aTafZRecy2k
We Were There
https://youtu.be/Cjnyk06MZRY
Sit Down Strike - Bill Collins & The Rabblerousers
https://youtu.be/inHdyPInyzA
Rose Marie Jun "Sing Me A Song With Social Significance*
https://youtu.be/nzgD2QvOdlk
One Big Union for Two* https://youtu.be/t1Wp9kMp3Ac
* from the 25th anniversary studio cast recording of the "Pins and Needles" musical revue.
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