Labor History Today

This week's labor history: Long-time activist for working women Ellen Bravo talks about the history – and future -- of paid family leave, and we visit with Hardball Press publisher Tim Sheard about why working class culture matters.
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: Aretha Franklin - Think (The Blues Brothers version)

This week's labor history: racial justice activist Bill Fletcher reminds us of an 1893 strike in California by Chinese, Portuguese and Paiute Indians…Lauren Coodley, author of “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual”… ATU’s Chris Townsend’s memories of Solidarity Day…our Labor History Object of the Week is original correspondence from the American Federation of Labor on expanding Social Security’s coverage. 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:Upton Sinclair's The Jungle ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Parody) - @MrBettsClassSolidarity Forever - Tom Morello The Nightwatchman

This week's labor history: Part 2 of our interview with labor historian Jeremy Brecher, including some revealing thoughts about history itself as he discusses the process of updating his classic book, “Strike.” Our labor history Object of the Week is a chilling image from the photo archives of the AFL-CIO News.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: “Smash The Banks Of Marble” from the 1971 LP “Progressive Labor Party ‎– Power To The Working Class.”   

This week's labor history: Part 1 of Chris Garlock’s interview with Jeremy Brecher, the historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements, including the classic “Strike!” Patrick Dixon talks with history professor Sarah Rose about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the complex history of disability and work. Jordan Biscardo, communications director at the Seafarers Union, tells us about the 1946 general strike that shut down the U.S. maritime industry.And our labor history Object of the Week is the cover of the September 1949 edition of The American Federationist, depicting the first Labor Day march.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: There is Power in a Union by The Street Dogs.

This week's labor history: Patrick Dixon talks with Harvey Klehr about John Reed, who formed the Communist Labor Party – motto, "Workers of the world unite!" -- in Chicago on August 31, 1919. Harvey Klehr is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus at Emory University and the author of numerous books including The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade and The Communist Experience in America: A Political and Social History. Our Labor History Object of the Week is an American Federation of Labor banner that dates from the late 1800s, not too long after the AFL’s founding. Music this week includes “Workers of the World, Unite!” a song composed in the Soviet Union, and first recorded in 1930; “Song of the United Front” by Bertolt Brecht, and “Workers of the World- Unite!” by The Last Internationale.  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: Workers of the World, Unite!; Song of the United Front; Workers Of The World- Unite! -- The Last Internationale (Official Video).

This week's labor history: Patrick Dixon talks with Katherine Turk about the Equal Rights Amendment and its effect on women’s rights at work. Turk is Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill and author of “Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace.”Our labor history Object of the Week is from the current exhibit at the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus, where the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” is up through September. Plus music from Aretha Franklin.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:Aretha Franklin - Respect; A Change Is Gonna Come.

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 https://unionist.com/
This week's music:Hold The Fort-Pete Seegerhttps://youtu.be/EnrwQzKeKgADump The Bosses Off Your Back-Anne Feeney  https://youtu.be/1FDtBNwhusU
We Will Sing One Song - John Paul Wrighthttps://youtu.be/sw2BKH4Bu6Q
One Big Industrial Union-May Day Chorus of Asheville https://youtu.be/qT46hxvs-X8The May Day Chorus of Asheville performing the IWW's One Big Industrial Union at Firestorm Cafe on April 30th, 2011
The Preacher And The Slave-Mischief Brew  https://youtu.be/LYCYJA5DIp8

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin remembers the day in 1894 when troops drove jobless workers out of  the nation’s capital, right here in Washington D.C. Saul Schniderman celebrates the birth of Wobblie organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.Yale Strom, director of the 2017 film “American Socialist: Eugene Victor Debs,” discusses two important events in Debs life.And, we chat with Jon Shelton about the 2010 bill to protect teachers and police from layoffs, and where things are today. Jon Shelton is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and the author of Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order. Ben Blake’s labor history Object of the Week is a drawer full of union buttons. 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:“Power To The People” - John Lennon https://youtu.be/RtvlBS4PMF0