Labor History Today

From the Working Class History podcast, acclaimed author, poet and Professor of Children’s Literature Michael Rosen talks about his anthology, Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain, which gathers together short stories from the labor and socialist press between 1880 and 1920. The Working Class History podcast is put out by an international collective of worker-activists whose social media and podcast project uncovers our collective history of fighting for a better world and promotes it to educate and inspire a new generation of activists. On this week’s Labor History in Two: A shot of opportunity; the IWW organizes Starbucks.
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Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
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“Steel City: 1980-2004” is a new exhibit at the El Pueblo History Museum covering the historic steel strike in Pueblo, Colorado. From the Labor Exchange, a podcast put out by the Colorado AFL-CIO, host Robert Lindgren talks to History Colorado’s Zach Werkowitch about the exhibit, which chronicles a defining period in Pueblo’s history as steelworkers and their families fought for labor rights and held their community together during often desperate times. On this week’s Labor History in Two: A Large Pepperoni Pizza and a Union.
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Labor historian Erik Loomis (A History of America in Ten Strikes) talks with The Rick Smith Show about how the issues that brought rail workers to the brink of a major strike this week trace back to a long history of abuse by railroad bosses, and a tradition of militance by the men and women who work on the nation’s railroads. Plus, historical perspective on the tentative rail agreement from The American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: the 1934 textile strike and the 1947 Harvester strike.
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Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Editing this week by Patrick Dixon.
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On November 1, 1948, smog produced by the southwestern Pennsylvanian steel industry poisoned the air in the Monongahela Valley town of Donora, killing more than 22 people and sickening thousands more. On today’s show, Louise Milone a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Georgia Department of History explores the response of the US Steel Corporation, employees, and Donora residents; and she explains how the United Steelworkers of America pushed for an investigation and improved environmental and health and safety regulations following the disaster. The story comes to us from Tales from the Reuther Library, a podcast focusing on stories on labor history, Detroit, and Wayne State University.
Also on today’s show, from Labor History in 2:00: The Lattimer Massacre; Chicago Teachers Say, Enough!Got a questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Hosted and produced by Chris Garlock. 
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North Carolina’s low union density today belies its rich history of worker organizing since the birth of the American labor movement in the 1800s, but this new podcast by North Carolina’s labor union federation aims to bring that history to light.
Also on today’s show, from Labor History in 2:00: Reconstruction Crumbles In Mississippi, and The Peekskill Riots. Got a questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Hosted and produced by Chris Garlock. 
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A month before the August 1919 steel strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania,Mother Jones was arrested for addressing a large crowd on Eighth Avenue. And on August 26, 1919, Mine Workers organizer Fannie Sellins and miner Joseph Starzeleski were murdered by coal company guards on a picket line in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. You’ll hear their stories today from Charlie's Monday Marker, hosted by Dr. Charles McCollester and produced by the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Charlie’s Monday Marker delves into the fascinating stories behind the more than 60 historical markers listed in "Labor History Sites in the Pittsburgh Region", a book authored by Dr. McCollester and Howard Scott in 2016 and published by Allegheny County Labor Council.
Also on today’s show, from Labor History in 2:00: The 1934 Filipino Lettuce Workers Strike, and The Man You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, But Should Have.Got a questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Hosted and produced by Chris Garlock. 
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Today’s episode originally ran on August 4, 2019.Labor lawyer Matt Fusco on Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat, which faced extermination at the hands of the Trump labor board. Gregory Wood, author of “Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace,” and a special LHT remix of the labor classic “Which Side Are You On?”Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Produced & engineered by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon.

Today's episode originally ran on August 12, 2018.This week's labor history: Yale Strom remembers WEVD, the Chicago radio station named for labor leader Eugene Victor Debs;Dan Duncan celebrates the founding of the AFL-CIO’s Maritime Trades Department;Saul Schniderman marks the anniversary of the publication of the IWW’s "Little Red Song Book," which is where all our music this week comes from;and Ben Blake’s labor history Object of the Week is a collection of posters, including one from the height of the Cold War showing an AFL-CIO map of forced labor gulags in the Soviet Union.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.
Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services.
This week's music: Hold The Fort-Pete Seeger; Dump The Bosses Off Your Back-Anne Feeney; We Will Sing One Song - John Paul Wright; One Big Industrial Union-May Day Chorus of Asheville, performing at Firestorm Cafe on April 30th, 2011; The Preacher And The Slave-Mischief Brew.