Resilient worker coalitions are often found at the intersection of labor and race. On today’s show, from the NC Labor History Revealed podcast, we’ll hear about how North Carolinians formed multi-racial coalitions to fight racism inside and outside the workplace, and how farmworkers leveraged such coalitions to overcome racist inadequacies in federal labor law to secure the largest union contract in North Carolina history.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The Fight for Equality and Honest Abe’s Stand for Labor.
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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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Union women heroes, past and present
The Radicalism of Irish American Women
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
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Women in the coal mines; Billionaires in Space
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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