A meatpacker’s American dream

On the America Works podcast, West African immigrant Komla Ewu tells oral historian John McKerley about how he left a prestigious but unprofitable teaching career in his native Togo to pursue the American dream.

On this week’s Labor History in Two:  President Jackson sets a union-busting precedent & Anna LoPizzo is murdered by police during the Bread and Roses strike.

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