The Gravy podcast explores how, from Punchin' the Dough to Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia, music has long included songs about labor.
On Black Work Talk, host Steven Pitts talks with labor icon William A. Lucy, whose more than fifty-year career included working on the sanitation workers campaign that brought Martin Luther King to Memphis in 1968.
And, on today’s Labor History in 2:00: Fighting for Equal Pay
Produced/edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 100 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Gravy is a production of the Southern Foodways Alliance. The episode included in this week's LHT was produced by Matt Pearl and derives from a presentation originally shared at the 2019 Southern Foodways Symposium on Food and Labor. Visit southernfoodways.org for more helpings of Gravy.
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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
LHT Archives: Painters join Black Lives Matter protests; the history of black police in America; Race and Rebellion
The 1913 Dublin Lock-out
Shootout in Matewan; General strike in KC
Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview
Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work
50 years of “Strike!”
Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living!
Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas
The U.S.-Canadian Labor History Collaborative
Canal workers, gays & miners, Gandhi’s labor quote
The Hardhat Riot
We Were There; Pins and Needles; Dust for Blood
Bootlegged Aliens; UPPER CASE WOMAN
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
The Valentine’s Day Strike of 1921
Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney
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