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.
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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.
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Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine
Black labor in Richmond
The Irish Immigrant Miners’ Memorial
City Workers Strike Song
“America Works” launches new season
The Bread Uprising
MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961
Who was Zelda D’Aprano?
Labor’s Untold Stories
Striketober & The Great Resignation: Take this job and shove it!
The first pay equity strike; Massachusetts’ longest strike
Founding the American Federation of Labor
Long live Mother Jones!
Murder, Race and (In)Justice
Tom Morello holds the line
Communists and community in wartime Detroit
From the Necropolis Strike to Striketober
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