Labor History Today

John Brown, Lewis Hine & Labor’s Magna Carta

On this week's Labor History Today: Heroic martyr and visionary or madman and terrorist? Leon Fink on abolitionist John Brown. Art historian Alexander Nemerov on why Lewis Hine’s powerful photographs of young children at work still speak to us today. Plus fascinating finds illuminating "Labor’s Magna Carta" in the Meany Labor Archives and four different versions of "John Brown's Body."
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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:Sonny Stitt - John Brown's BodyJohn Browns Body-Paul Robeson Van Morrison - John Brown's BodyWoody Herman Big Band-John Brown's Other Body

The Las Vegas Frontier strike

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin talks about the long struggle for gender rights and equality; Labor History Today's Patrick Dixon talks with five members of Culinary Workers Local 226 about their successful 1991 strike against the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and our Labor History Object of the Week is a dues cap from the archives of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Plus music from Pete Seeger, Sara Bareilles and Bobby DePace.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 https://unionist.com/
This week's music:Sara Bareilles – Brave Picket Line - Bobby DePaceWe Shall Not Be Moved-Pete Seeger

Joe Hill, NAFTA, and the St. Paul Teachers Strike

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin and David Fernandez-Barrial.
This week's labor history: The life and death of Joe Hill; miners battle for unions and job safety; Congress approves the North American Free Trade Agreement; teachers strike in St. Paul, Minn.,the first organized walkout by teachers in the country.
Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. David Fernandez-Barrial is Steward Director for AFSCME 2910 at the Library of Congress, and and foreign language library at the Library.
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor