Wayne State history PhD candidate, archivist, and former Reuther Library staff member Allie Penn talks with Tales from the Reuther Library podcast host Dan Golodner about the Housewives League of Detroit.
Plus, Labor History in 2 tells the story of Oscar Neebe, one of eight men convicted of inciting violence at a workers rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago in 1886. And, from our own archives, the former union building right in downtown DC that you’ve probably passed many times without realizing the key role it played in American labor history.
Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. 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.
A Supreme disaster for workers
Working People’s Hidden Histories
Labor history at the AFL-CIO & Labor Notes
“We Remember You”; the AFL-CIO’s tribute to Rich Trumka
Detroit Remains: Using historical archeology to connect the past to the present
The Memorial Day Massacre
Forced labour during the ”Dirty Thirties”
Blood, guts, and organizing
The Haymarket Martyrs Monument: Past, Present, Future
We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day
The death of “Big Steve” Sutton
Working on Earth Day
Big Top Labor: Life and labor in the circus world
Michael Honey on Dr. King: “All Labor Has Dignity”
Industrial murder at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
Union women heroes, past and present
The Radicalism of Irish American Women
Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine
Black labor in Richmond
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Everything Everywhere Daily