The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike is one of the three most important in U.S. history, yet it’s largely unknown; why?
Plus: CBTU president Terry Melvin on why the AFL-CIO’s Gompers Room was renamed the Solidarity Room.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: Debs goes to prison.
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MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961 (Encore)
Woody’s resolutions
”Please Buy My Last Paper, I Want to Go Home”
Bayard Rustin, leader and lover
Capital’s Terrorists
Woody’s ”1913 Massacre”
A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
Labor history, justice, and Jesuits
The Leadville Irish Miners’ Memorial
Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA
Under the Iron Heel: Repressing the IWW and free speech
How matchgirls sparked the British labour movement
Who “Oppenheimer” left out
The Triangle Fire: A new memorial, and ”Scenes from a Prosecution”
Weapons of the Boss
Voices of Guinness (Encore)
“The Port of Missing Men” (Encore)
The labor “Parade” that flopped (Encore)
The Irish Immigrant Miners’ Memorial (Encore)
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