On this week’s show, Kipp Dawson, a woman coal miner active in the women miners' movement of the 1970s, '80s and '90s, on women's empowerment and recent labor history. Kim comes to us from the Willamette Wake Up Labor Report, which airs on KMUZ in Salem, Oregon.
Then, the DC Labor Chorus on Billionaires in Space and, on this week’s Labor History in Two: industrial unionists hold a secret meeting in Chicago.
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.
#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle
This week's music: We Were There, Billionaires in Space and Nancy on the Med-Surge floor, all from the DC Labor Chorus’ 2021 Holiday Concert.
Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas (Encore)
Bitter Kisses for Labor
Tom Breiding’s songs of struggle
The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike
Erasing Virginia’s labor history
The Strange Career of “the Working Class”
Fred Redmond: “Why Labor History Is Important”
The Tractor Princess
Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary
Celebrating Black History Month (Encore)
Domestic worker, Mother of the Movement
Reconciling a Slaveholding Past (Encore)
A meatpacker’s American dream
Bill Lucy on MLK; Shubert Sebree on Debs
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
The Cambridge Movement
“No Labor Dictators for Us”
A Working-Class Christmas Story Christmas
Red Jerseys in Detroit
Julia Reichert: “Documentarian of the Working Class”
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Lore