Oscar-winning director Julia Reichert, interviewed by 9 to 5 founder Karen Nussbaum; the AFL-CIO’s Damon Silvers, on how the Montgomery Ward CEO was busted for unionbusting; Saul Schniderman celebrates May Day and Mother Jones’ birthday. "Mother Mends" by The R.J. Phillips Band.
Produced 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.
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”
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